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From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: timothy.covell@ashavan.org,
	"François Cami" <stilgar2k@wanadoo.fr>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"Mike Kravetz" <kravetz@us.ibm.com>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Anton Blanchard" <anton@samba.org>,
	"george anzinger" <george@mvista.com>,
	"Rusty Russell" <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [patch] O(1) scheduler, -G1, 2.5.2-pre10, 2.4.17 (fwd)
Date: 12 Jan 2002 18:56:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1010879815.3560.5.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.40.0201121237110.1559-100000@blue1.dev.mcafeelabs.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.40.0201121237110.1559-100000@blue1.dev.mcafeelabs.com>

On Sat, 2002-01-12 at 15:44, Davide Libenzi wrote:

> My opinion is: if it can be solved with no more than 20 lines of code
> let's do it, otherwise let's see what kind of catastrophe will happen by
> allowing such behavior. Because i've already seen hundreds of lines of
> code added to solve corner cases and removed after 3-4 years because
> someone realized that maybe such corner cases does not matter more than a
> whit.
> I'll be happy to be shut down here ...

Completely agreed.  I think its an unfair situation (we may see
administrators timing the order they start large batch tasks), but it is
a corner case and we do have an "optimal cache use" counterargument.

	Robert Love


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-01-12 23:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-10 14:19 [patch] O(1) scheduler, -G1, 2.5.2-pre10, 2.4.17 (fwd) Ingo Molnar
2002-01-10 18:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-10 20:11   ` george anzinger
2002-01-10 23:54     ` Ingo Molnar
2002-01-10 23:22   ` Ingo Molnar
2002-01-11  0:01   ` Ingo Molnar
2002-01-10 20:01 ` Robert Love
2002-01-10 23:44   ` Ingo Molnar
2002-01-10 21:57 ` Mike Kravetz
2002-01-11  0:48   ` Ingo Molnar
2002-01-10 23:04     ` Davide Libenzi
2002-01-11 21:42     ` François Cami
2002-01-11 21:46       ` Timothy Covell
     [not found]         ` <1010814327.2018.5.camel@phantasy>
2002-01-12 11:48           ` François Cami
2002-01-12 16:26           ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-12 20:00             ` Robert Love
2002-01-12 20:44           ` Davide Libenzi
2002-01-12 20:44             ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-12 23:56             ` Robert Love [this message]
2002-01-13  6:59             ` Rusty Russell
2002-01-14  8:40         ` Marian Jancar
2002-01-11 21:53       ` Mark Hahn
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-13 20:30 Dieter Nützel

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