From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261169AbVFTLQ7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 07:16:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261189AbVFTLQE (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 07:16:04 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:23001 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261169AbVFTLEJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 07:04:09 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:04:06 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Ulrich Windl Cc: Roman Zippel , lkml , Andrew Morton , George Anzinger Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] new timeofday core subsystem for -mm (v.B3) Message-ID: <20050620110406.GA28931@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Ulrich Windl , Roman Zippel , lkml , Andrew Morton , George Anzinger References: <42B685E8.9359.14B98F19@rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de> <42B6B733.24349.B0B7F9@rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42B6B733.24349.B0B7F9@rkdvmks1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:31:48PM +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote: > it seems you don't like the patch for some personal reasons, and now your are > trying to find arguments against it. The best method to get the perfomance > implications is trying it (the patched kernel). Roman is just asking for explanations. The patches approach might be really great but if no one understands it that doesn't help. And it's a very sensitive part of the kernel so it needs to be understood very well.