From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756923AbYEABcP (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:32:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752326AbYEABb7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:31:59 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:50642 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751909AbYEABb6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:31:58 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:31:49 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Willy Tarreau , David Miller , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby Subject: Re: Slow DOWN, please!!! Message-Id: <20080430183149.78d97597.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20080429.190352.137408408.davem@davemloft.net> <20080430224610.GO8474@1wt.eu> <200805010242.36775.rjw@sisk.pl> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:19:56 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds wrote: > You (and Andrew) have tried to argue that slowing things down results in > better quality, eh? I argued the opposite: that increasing quality will as a side-effect slow things down. If we simply throttled things, people would spend more time watching the shopping channel while merging smaller amounts of the same old crap.