Re: [patch][rfc][rft] vm throughput 2.4.2-ac4

Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo@conectiva.com.br)
Thu, 1 Mar 2001 17:51:43 -0300 (BRT)


On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Chris Evans wrote:

>
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> > True. I think we want something in-between our ideas...
> ^^^^^^^
> > a while. This should make it possible for the disk reads to
> ^^^^^^
>
> Oh dear.. not more "vm design by waving hands in the air". Come on people,
> improve the vm by careful profiling, tweaking and benching, not by
> throwing random patches in that seem cool in theory.

OTOH, "careful profiling, tweaking and benching" are always limited to a
number workloads.

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