On Wednesday 19 September 2007 04:30, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > ROFL! Yeah of course, how could I have forgotten about our trusty OOM > > killer as the solution to the fragmentation problem? It would only have > > been funnier if you had said to reboot every so often when memory gets > > fragmented :) > > Can we please stop this *idiotic* thread. > > Nick, you and some others seem to be arguing based on a totally flawed > base, namely: > - we can guarantee anything at all in the VM > - we even care about the 16kB blocksize > - second-class citizenry is "bad" > > The fact is, *none* of those things are true. The VM doesn't guarantee > anything, and is already very much about statistics in many places. You > seem to be arguing as if Christoph was introducing something new and > unacceptable, when it's largely just more of the same. I will stop this idiotic thread. However, at the VM and/or vm/fs things we had, I was happy enough for this thing of Christoph's to get merged. Actually I even didn't care if it had mmap support, so long as it solved their problem. But a solution to the general problem of VM and IO scalability, it is not. IMO. > And the fact is, nobody but SGI customers would ever want the 16kB > blocksize. IOW - NONE OF THIS MATTERS! Maybe. Maybe not. > Can you guys stop this inane thread already, or at least take it private > between you guys, instead of forcing everybody else to listen in on your > flamefest. Will do. Sorry. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
