From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757964AbYEABnz (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:43:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752254AbYEABnr (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:43:47 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:42815 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750875AbYEABnr (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:43:47 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:43:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andrew Morton cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Willy Tarreau , David Miller , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby Subject: Re: Slow DOWN, please!!! In-Reply-To: <20080430183149.78d97597.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <20080429.190352.137408408.davem@davemloft.net> <20080430224610.GO8474@1wt.eu> <200805010242.36775.rjw@sisk.pl> <20080430183149.78d97597.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 ... Linus