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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/6] fs: icache RCU free inodes
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:04:06 +1100
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On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 04:56:33PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> So there. I re state my case. I have put up the numbers, and I have
> shown that even worst cases is not the end of the world. I don't know
> why I've had to repeat it so many times, but honestly at this point I've
> done enough. The case is closed until any *actual* significant numbers
> to the contrary turn up.

Same goes for per-zone LRUs, FWIW.

You can't ask submitter of every single change to prove a negative.

At some point you have to move on with life and accept that regressions
are inevitable, performance regressions are inevitable, and that we have
a development model that is well geared by now to tolerate and resolve
regressions.