Re: [patch][rfc] quell interactive feeding frenzy

[Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>]

On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 21:00 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Friday 07 April 2006 20:57, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 11:52 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > i think we should try Mike's patches after smpnice got ironed out. The
> > > extreme-starvation cases should be handled more or less correctly now by
> > > the minimal set of changes from Mike that are upstream (knock on wood),
> > > the singing-dancing add-ons can probably wait a bit and smpnice clearly
> > > has priority.
> >
> > (I'm still trying to find ways to do less singing and dancing.)
> >
> > This patch you may notice wasn't against an mm kernel.  I was more or
> > less separating this one from the others, because I consider this
> > problem to be very severe.  IMHO, this or something like it needs to get
> > upstream soon.
> 
> Which is a fine observation but your code is changing every 2nd day. Which is 
> also fine because code needs to evolve. However that's not really the way we 
> push stuff upstream...

No, it's not changing much at all, though I wish it would.  WRT this
patch, you'll note that the mail subject contains the magical
incantation [rfc] (didn't work).  I care not one whit whether _my_ patch
gets sent upstream or to the bit bucket.  I care only that the problem
gets solved, and preferably sooner than later.

	-Mike