Re: [PATCH] Optimize out pte_chain take three

Martin J. Bligh
2002-07-10T20:33:53Z

>> Bill, please throw away your list and come up with a new one.
>> Consisting of workloads and tests which we can run to evaluate
>> and optimise page replacement algorithms.
>
> Agreed, we do want nice stuff building on rmap, but
> Linus has indicated that he doesn't want it in the
> first stage of merging rmap.
>
> Any way out of this chicken&egg situation ?

Surely we can just get the benchmarking done on the full set of patches
before any part of them gets accepted into mainline? I don't see what the
problem is ....

M.