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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-14 11:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <20040506150944.126bb409.akpm@osdl.org>
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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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