From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
peterz@infradead.org, raziebe@gmail.com, maximlevitsky@gmail.com,
cfriesen@nortel.com, efault@gmx.de, riel@redhat.com,
wiseman@macs.biu.ac.il, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: THE OFFLINE SCHEDULER
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:55:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <y0mtyzut17u.fsf@fche.csb> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090826213400.GA25536@elte.hu> (Ingo Molnar's message of "Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:34:00 +0200")
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes:
> [...]
>
>> Don't get all religious about this. If the change is clean,
>> maintainable and useful then there's no reason to not merge it.
> Precisely. This feature as proposed here hinders the correct
> solution being implemented - and hence hurts long term
> maintainability and hence is a no-merge right now.
(Does it "hinder" this in any different way than the following, as in
possibly reducing "pressure" for it?)
> [It also weakens the pressure to fix latencies for a much wider set
> of applications, hence hurts the quality of Linux in the long
> run. (i.e. is a net step backwards)]
How would you differentiate the above sentiment from "perfect is the
enemy of the good"?
- FChE
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-27 2:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-22 23:27 RFC: THE OFFLINE SCHEDULER raz ben yehuda
2009-08-23 5:21 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-08-23 9:09 ` raz ben yehuda
2009-08-23 7:30 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-08-23 11:05 ` raz ben yehuda
2009-08-23 9:52 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-08-25 15:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-25 17:56 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-08-25 18:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-25 18:12 ` Mike Galbraith
[not found] ` <5d96567b0908251522m3fd4ab98n76a52a34a11e874c@mail.gmail.com>
2009-08-25 22:32 ` Fwd: " Raz
2009-08-25 19:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-08-25 19:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-25 19:22 ` Chris Friesen
2009-08-25 20:35 ` Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
2009-08-26 5:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-08-26 10:29 ` raz ben yehuda
2009-08-26 8:02 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-08-26 8:16 ` Raz
2009-08-26 8:16 ` Raz
2009-08-26 13:47 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-26 14:45 ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-08-26 14:54 ` raz ben yehuda
2009-08-26 15:06 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-26 15:11 ` raz ben yehuda
2009-08-26 15:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-08-26 15:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-26 16:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-08-26 16:16 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-26 16:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-26 18:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-26 19:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-26 19:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-26 20:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-26 20:50 ` Andrew Morton
2009-08-26 21:09 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-26 21:15 ` Chris Friesen
2009-08-26 21:37 ` raz ben yehuda
2009-08-27 16:51 ` Chris Friesen
2009-08-27 17:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-27 21:09 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-08-27 22:22 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-28 2:15 ` Rik van Riel
2009-08-28 3:33 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-28 3:33 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-28 4:27 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-28 4:27 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-08-28 10:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-08-28 18:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-28 19:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-08-28 19:52 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-28 20:00 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-08-28 20:21 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-28 20:34 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-08-31 19:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-31 17:44 ` Roland Dreier
2009-09-01 18:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-09-01 16:15 ` Roland Dreier
2009-08-29 17:03 ` jim owens
2009-08-31 19:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-31 15:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-01 18:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-28 6:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-08-27 23:51 ` Chris Friesen
2009-08-28 0:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-08-28 21:20 ` Chris Friesen
2009-08-28 21:20 ` Chris Friesen
2009-08-28 18:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-27 21:33 ` raz ben yehuda
2009-08-27 22:05 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-08-28 8:38 ` raz ben yehuda
2009-08-28 10:05 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-08-28 13:25 ` Rik van Riel
2009-08-28 13:37 ` jim owens
2009-08-28 15:22 ` raz ben yehuda
2009-08-26 21:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-27 2:55 ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2009-08-26 21:34 ` raz ben yehuda
2009-08-26 21:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-26 21:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-26 21:32 ` raz ben yehuda
2009-08-27 7:15 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-08-26 15:37 ` Chetan.Loke
2009-08-26 15:21 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-25 21:09 ` Éric Piel
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