Re: [patch] hashtable sizes for icache and dcache

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Thu, 23 Sep 1999 06:44:27 -0700


Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:20:23 +0200 (CEST)
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>

On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Ingo Molnar wrote:

>this patch alone indeed is just fixing the symptoms. If such a patch makes

You don't understand the difference between fixing the symptom and fixing
the cause of a problem.

And at the same time nobody wants to hear about a patch which fixes
one problem (hash lookup performance) while creating another (static
increase in table size negatively effects low memory machines). See?

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com

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