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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUGed to death
Date: 14 Apr 2003 17:23:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b7fjee$ta8$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030414210006.GA7831@suse.de

Followup to:  <20030414210006.GA7831@suse.de>
By author:    Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> The sort of folks who would worry about that very last 1% are the
> sort of people that would more than likely hit these BUGs as they're
> really stressing things.
> 
> Losing a bunch of potential reports (and possibly doing bad things),
> in the name of a 1% performance boost doesn't sound too productive to me.
> 

It's useful to have the hooks to actually *measure* the overhead,
though.

	-hpa
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-04-15  0:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-14 20:19 BUGed to death Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-14 20:40 ` Duncan Sands
2003-04-14 21:02   ` Dave Jones
2003-04-14 21:10     ` Duncan Sands
2003-04-14 21:17       ` Dave Jones
2003-04-15 11:57         ` Duncan Sands
2003-04-15 12:05           ` Dave Jones
2003-04-15 14:39             ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-23 15:08             ` Duncan Sands
2003-04-14 21:00 ` Dave Jones
2003-04-14 20:55   ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-14 21:08     ` Dave Jones
2003-04-14 21:50       ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-14 21:55         ` Dave Jones
2003-04-15  0:23   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-04-15 12:01 ` Duncan Sands
2003-04-15 12:31   ` Jens Axboe
2003-04-15 12:36     ` Dave Jones
2003-04-15 12:40       ` Jens Axboe
2003-04-15 12:49     ` Sean Neakums
2003-04-15 12:52       ` Sean Neakums
2003-04-15 13:01     ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-15 13:17       ` Jens Axboe
2003-04-15 13:55     ` Duncan Sands
2003-04-15 14:22       ` Jens Axboe
2003-04-15 14:35   ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-15 14:39     ` Duncan Sands
2003-04-15 14:45       ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-04-15 14:58         ` Duncan Sands
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-15 14:30 rwhron
2003-04-15 15:57 ` Dave Jones
2003-04-15 16:11   ` Nick Piggin
2003-04-15 16:42   ` Michael Buesch
2003-04-15 16:45     ` Dave Jones
2003-04-15 18:33 Chuck Ebbert

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