Re: dentry bloat.

From: Dipankar Sarma (dipankar_at_in.ibm.com)
Date: 05/14/04

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    Date:	Fri, 14 May 2004 16:54:08 +0530
    To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
    
    

    On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 04:14:33AM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote:
    > > so I guess you do.
    >
    > Sorry - I'm being thick.
    >
    > Is the new hashing good or bad?

    That I don't know from the contradicting descriptions, but...

    > (Usually, performance is thought of as something 'good', so when you say
    > it is 'brought down', that sounds 'bad', but since it's ms/iteration,
    > I'm guessing that you mean to say that the ms/iteration is lower, which
    > would I guess improves performance, so I'm guessing that bringing
    > performance down is 'good' in this case, which is not idiomatic to the
    > particular version of English I happen to speak ... So please favor

    In this case, the performance is inversely proportional to the
    benchmark metric. Lower benchmark metric means better performance.

    Thanks
    Dipankar
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