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From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
	raghav@in.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org, maneesh@in.ibm.com,
	torvalds@osdl.org, manfred@colorfullife.com, davej@redhat.com,
	wli@holomorphy.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dentry bloat.
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 16:54:08 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040514112408.GM4002@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040514041433.1b38b120.pj@sgi.com>

On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 04:14:33AM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote:
> > so I guess you do.
> 
> Sorry - I'm being thick.
> 
> Is the new hashing good or bad?

That I don't know from the contradicting descriptions, but...

> (Usually, performance is thought of as something 'good', so when you say
> it is 'brought down', that sounds 'bad', but since it's ms/iteration,
> I'm guessing that you mean to say that the ms/iteration is lower, which
> would I guess improves performance, so I'm guessing that bringing
> performance down is 'good' in this case, which is not idiomatic to the
> particular version of English I happen to speak ...  So please favor

In this case, the performance is inversely proportional to the
benchmark metric. Lower benchmark metric means better performance.

Thanks
Dipankar

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-14 11:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20040506200027.GC26679@redhat.com>
     [not found] ` <20040506150944.126bb409.akpm@osdl.org>
     [not found]   ` <409B1511.6010500@colorfullife.com>
2004-05-08  8:23     ` dentry bloat Andrew Morton
2004-05-08  9:23       ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-08 10:11         ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-08 10:12           ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-08 10:28           ` viro
2004-05-08 10:41             ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-08 10:52             ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-08 10:31           ` Manfred Spraul
2004-05-08 17:28           ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-08 18:19             ` David S. Miller
2004-05-08 19:01             ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-08 19:13               ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-08 19:27                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-08 19:27                 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-08 20:42                   ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-05-08 20:55                     ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-08 21:19                       ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-05-09  0:10                         ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-09  2:55                           ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-09  3:12                             ` David S. Miller
2004-05-09  3:53                               ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-09 21:03                                 ` Matt Mackall
2004-05-10  8:27                                   ` Helge Hafting
2004-05-10  8:32                                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-10  9:46                                       ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-10 14:54                                         ` Matt Mackall
2004-05-10 16:26                                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-05-10 18:34                                             ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-05-09  4:12                             ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-09  4:25                               ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-09  4:36                                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-09  5:14                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-09  7:36                                     ` Rodolfo Guluarte Hale
2004-05-09  9:10                                     ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2004-05-09  9:23                                       ` viro
2004-05-09 15:35                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-09 18:11                                         ` Matt Mackall
2004-05-09 22:08                                           ` Francois Romieu
2004-05-09 23:51                                           ` Paul Jackson
2004-05-10  7:17                                         ` Florian Weimer
2004-05-10 14:12                                         ` Rik van Riel
2004-05-09  4:43                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-09  7:28                     ` Manfred Spraul
2004-05-09 15:33                       ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-05-09 22:17                         ` viro
2004-05-09 22:27                           ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-11  5:26                             ` Maneesh Soni
2004-05-10 18:39                           ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-05-11  5:17                             ` Maneesh Soni
2004-05-08 20:13                 ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-10-06 12:58                   ` Maneesh Soni
2004-05-11 20:22                     ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-14 10:33                       ` Raghavan
2004-05-14 10:50                         ` Paul Jackson
2004-05-14 11:04                           ` Jens Axboe
2004-05-14 11:14                             ` Paul Jackson
2004-05-14 11:24                               ` Dipankar Sarma [this message]
2004-05-14 11:24                               ` Jens Axboe
2004-05-14 11:30                                 ` Paul Jackson
2004-05-14 11:18                         ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-05-14 14:44                           ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-08 21:00               ` Dipankar Sarma

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