Re: 2.4.8-pre1 and dbench -20% throughput

Hugh Dickins
2001-07-29T20:44:06Z

On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> 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...

No question, that was a good principle; but in practice there were or
are very few places where they were used, yet far too many variants
provided, some with awkward side-effects on the lists.

I've no objection to one age_page_up() and one age_page_down()
(though I do find the term "age" unhelpful here), inline or macro,
but even so a lot seems to depend on where and when we initialize it.

Hugh