Re: 2.4.8-pre1 and dbench -20% throughput

Rik van Riel
2001-07-29T20:25:37Z

On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > Removed. Which makes all the "age_page_up*()" functions go away entirely.
> > They were mostly gone already.
>
> Applause! And for your encore... see how many age_page_down*()s
> there are (3), and how many uses (1). Same fate, please!

Actually, I liked the fact that we could change the policy
of up and down aging of pages in one place instead of having
to edit the source in multiple places...

But yes, for this macros would be better than functions ;)

regards,

Rik
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