On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 12:07:43PM -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote: > On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 00:48 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > The problem with the desktop is that it's obvious, looks simple and > > everyone has an opinion on it. But not all of these opinions are equally > > valid. This kind of situation is much easier to deal with in, say, the > > kernel VM system - in that case it would be perfectly acceptable for > > people who spend their entire working lives concentrating on a specific > > topic to say that they know better than people who occasionally touch > > upon it. > > ... And the kernel VM people tend to be able to back up their expertise > with hard data. If a patch isn't an improvement in some provable manner, > it doesn't get in to the kernel. Like everything else, kernel VM performance is a tradeoff. Improvements may benefit certain workloads while impairing others. It's rare for changes to improve things for everybody - so the end result is a judgement call, generally by the people who are assumed to know what they're doing. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
