Re: [PATCH 10/25] Unionfs: add un/likely conditionals on copyup ops

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Sep 26 2007 11:43, Erez Zadok wrote:
>
>*That's* the information I was looking for, Kyle: what's the estimated
>probability I should be using as my guideline.  I used 95% (20/1 ratio), and

;-)

19:1 <=> 95:5 <=> 95% <=> ratio=0.95  != 20.0 (=20/1)

>you're telling me I should use 99% (100/1 ratio).  The difference between

99:1 <=> 99% <=> ratio=0.99  != 100.0 (=100/1)

>the number of cycles saved/added is very compelling.  Given that I certainly
>agree with you that I'm using un/likely too much.  I'll re-evaluate and
>update my patch series then.
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