Re: [RFC][DATA] re "ongoing vm suckage"

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Please just remove the code instead. I don't think it buys you anything.

IIRC you applied the patch introducing that logic because it
gave a 25% performance increase under some write intensive
loads (or something like that).

Or are you telling us now that there wasn't a reason at all
you applied that code to your tree in the first place? ;))

Rik
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