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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	Robert Love <rml@novell.com>, Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Preempt? (was Re: Cannot enable DMA on SATA drive (SCSI-libsata, VIA SATA))
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 00:12:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1097035953.1359.15.camel@krustophenia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4163660A.4010804@pobox.com>

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 23:27, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> If users and developers are presented with the _impression_ that long 
> latency code paths don't exist

Users do not care whether some "long latency code path" exists in
theory.  They only notice results.  The developer part of your argument
is valid though.

Lee 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-06  4:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4136E7EF00073144@mail-3.tiscali.it>
2004-10-06  0:30 ` Cannot enable DMA on SATA drive (SCSI-libsata, VIA SATA) Gianluca Cecchi
2004-10-06  0:54   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06  1:00     ` Preempt? (was Re: Cannot enable DMA on SATA drive (SCSI-libsata, VIA SATA)) Roland Dreier
2004-10-06  1:11       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06  1:28         ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06  1:32           ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06  1:40           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06  1:52             ` Robert Love
2004-10-06  1:55               ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06  2:02                 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06  2:07                   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06  2:28                     ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06  3:17                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-06  3:27                       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06  3:43                         ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06  3:59                           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06  4:05                             ` Lee Revell
2004-10-06  4:22                             ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06 15:16                             ` Aleksandar Milivojevic
2004-10-06  4:03                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-06  4:08                           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06  4:16                             ` Lee Revell
2004-10-06  4:26                             ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06  4:46                             ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-06  6:04                               ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06  6:16                                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-06 13:38                                   ` Jeff Sipek
2004-10-06  4:12                         ` Lee Revell [this message]
2004-10-06  3:34                       ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06  2:07                 ` Robert Love
2004-10-06  2:30                   ` Nick Piggin

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