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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Cc: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@idb.hist.no>,
	Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: low-latency patches
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 11:24:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BC1EF61.9ECD3273@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011006010519.A749@draal.physics.wisc.edu> <3BBEA8CF.D2A4BAA8@zip.com.au> <20011006150024.C2625@mikef-linux.matchmail.com> <3BC1A062.6E953751@idb.hist.no> <3BC1E53E.2A67202A@mvista.com>

george anzinger wrote:
> 
> Well, no, but do we want to improve as kernel writers, or just stay
> "hackers"?  If low latency was a concern the same way lack of dead locks
> and avoiding OOPs is today, don't you think we would be better coders?
> As for me, I want to shoot for the higher goal.  Even if I miss, I will
> still have accomplished more than if I had shot for the mundane.

Right.  It needs to be a conscious, planned decision:  "from now on,
holding a lock for more than 500 usecs is a bug".

So someone, be it Linus, "the community" or my Mum needs to decide
that this is a feature which the kernel will henceforth support.

It's a new feature - it should be treated as such.


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  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-08 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-06  6:05 low-latency patches Bob McElrath
2001-10-06  6:46 ` Andrew Morton
2001-10-06 16:33   ` Daniel Phillips
2001-10-06 20:42   ` Bob McElrath
2001-10-06 22:00   ` Mike Fedyk
2001-10-06 22:22     ` Robert Love
2001-10-08 12:47     ` Helge Hafting
2001-10-08 17:41       ` george anzinger
2001-10-08 18:24         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2001-10-08 18:36           ` Alan Cox
2001-10-07  1:12   ` Robert Love
2001-10-07  2:38     ` Jeffrey W. Baker
2001-10-07  2:55       ` Robert Love
2001-10-06 22:36 ` Robert Love
2001-10-06 22:46   ` Mike Fedyk
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-10 15:27 David Balazic
2001-03-08 13:06 Andrew Morton

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