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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next prev 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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