From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758253AbYEALA3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 07:00:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754825AbYEALAT (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 07:00:19 -0400 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:49564 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754811AbYEALAS (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 07:00:18 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Slow DOWN, please!!! Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 12:59:46 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 20070904.708012) Cc: Andrew Morton , Willy Tarreau , David Miller , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby References: <20080429.190352.137408408.davem@davemloft.net> <20080430183149.78d97597.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805011259.47343.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday, 1 of May 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > eh? I argued the opposite: that increasing quality will as a side-effect > > slow things down. > > Yes, my bad, I realized that when I read through my message and already > sent out a fix for my buggy email ;) > > > If we simply throttled things, people would spend more time watching the > > shopping channel while merging smaller amounts of the same old crap. > > I agree totally. And although some of the time would probably _also_ be > spent on the frustrating crap that was designed to do the throttling, that > isn't much more productive than watching the shopping channel would be ... Okay, so what exactly are we going to do to address the issue that I described in the part of my last message that you skipped? Rafael