From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756029AbYAYQ65 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:58:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753533AbYAYQ6u (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:58:50 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:36487 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753198AbYAYQ6t (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:58:49 -0500 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:58:37 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Guillaume Chazarain Cc: LKML Subject: Re: Dropping some patches from sched-devel Message-ID: <20080125165837.GA19377@elte.hu> References: <3d8471ca0801250838h2d1f21f2n95c70bc26e28d310@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3d8471ca0801250838h2d1f21f2n95c70bc26e28d310@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -0.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-0.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_20 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -0.5 BAYES_20 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 5 to 20% [score: 0.0974] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Guillaume Chazarain wrote: > Hi Ingo, > > Can I talk you into dropping these patches of mine from sched-devel > (or not send them to Linus): > > da0f9440cdcb1edd5424de91f326de83de3fe5f9 sched: make sure jiffies is > up to date before calling __update_rq_clock() > 6eb300ad38fef6db4efe177067a65aaa771596da sched: fix rq->clock > overflows detection with CONFIG_NO_HZ > > They are not of good enough quality, and I'm working on a better > approach. sure, done. what method are you using of determining quality? Could you perhaps try to automate it? (even better would be some self-test within the kernel that detects badness) Ingo