Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

[Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>]

Ray Lee schrieb:
> I spend a lot of time each day watching my computer fault my
> workingset back in when I switch contexts. I'd rather I didn't have to
> do that. Unfortunately, that's a pretty subjective problem report. For
> whatever it's worth, we have pretty subjective solution reports
> pointing to swap prefetch as providing a fix for them.

Add me.

> My concern is that a subjective problem report may not be good enough.

That's my impression too, seeing the insistence on numbers.

> So, what do I measure to make this an objective problem report?

That seems to be the crux of the matter: how to measure subjective
usability issues (aka user experience) when simple reports along the
lines of "A is much better than B for everyday work" are not enough.
The same problem already impaired the "fair scheduler" discussion.
It would really help to have a clear direction there.

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