Re: Page Colouring (was: 2.6.0 Huge pages not working as expected)

William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-29T09:22:22Z

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> I did get a positive reaction from you at KS, and I've also been
>> slaving away at keeping this thing current and improving it when I can
>> for a year. Would you mind telling me what the Hell is going on here?
>> I guess I already know I'm screwed beyond all hope of recovery, but I
>> might as well get official confirmation.

On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 01:14:03AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> No, I haven't even _looked_ at any 2.7.x timeframe patches, and I'm not
> even going to for the next few months.
> I don't care what does it, I want a bigger PAGE_CACHE_SIZE, and working
> patches are the only thing that matters. But for now, I have my 2.6.x
> blinders on.

I can't say I'm particularly encouraged by what I've heard thus far,
but I suppose that means what I've been doing for the past 6 months
hasn't been entirely meaningless.

Thanks.

-- wli