From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752445AbXDIEDX (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 00:03:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752631AbXDIEDX (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 00:03:23 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:44539 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752445AbXDIEDW (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 00:03:22 -0400 X-Authenticated: #14349625 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1938xcCh0R3b4xshvtigl7E8/R8bm7qF6di7OrBqa uJUa2yLibXWSeI Subject: Re: Ten percent test From: Mike Galbraith To: Gene Heskett Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Con Kolivas , Andrew Morton , ck list In-Reply-To: <200704081304.48033.gene.heskett@gmail.com> References: <200703290237.38777.kernel@kolivas.org> <20070408104125.GB11123@elte.hu> <20070408105849.GA15764@elte.hu> <200704081304.48033.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 06:03:16 +0200 Message-Id: <1176091396.6355.9.camel@Homer.simpson.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 13:04 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 08 April 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > >and note that a year ago Mike did a larger patch too, not unlike his > >current patch - but we hoped that his smaller change would be sufficient > >- and nobody came along and said "i tested Mike's and the difference is > >significant on my system". > > May I suggest that while it may have been noticeable, it was > not 'significant', so we didn't sing praises and bow to mecca at the > time. Actually, there was practically nil interest in testing. We made a couple of minor adjustments to the interactivity logic, and all went quiet, so I didn't think it was enough of a problem to require more intrusive countermeasures. -Mike