Re: [patch] hashtable sizes for icache and dcache

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:30:36 +0100 (BST)


> We are going dogslow and we could be fast while using 2.3.18ac8 for
> testing. Is this smart? Such two liner change won't harm on the long run
> as the auto-tuning hash feature is pending to be merged and it will kill
> such #define line completly _careless_ about the value it had in the
> ancient or recent past.

Putting shit into kernels doesnt work. The person who puts it in is always
too busy to take it out and fix it. If they werent too busy they'd have done
it right first itme

> should be set to a value that will make happy _most_ of testers until the
> new autotuning feature will be merged. That's different than adding crap
> to the kernel. See?

No

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