From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264007AbTDOAMB (for ); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 20:12:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264008AbTDOAMB (for ); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 20:12:01 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:26123 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264007AbTDOAMA (for ); Mon, 14 Apr 2003 20:12:00 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: BUGed to death Date: 14 Apr 2003 17:23:42 -0700 Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: <80690000.1050351598@flay> <20030414210006.GA7831@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Disclaimer: Not speaking for Transmeta in any way, shape, or form. Copyright: Copyright 2003 H. Peter Anvin - All Rights Reserved Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <20030414210006.GA7831@suse.de> By author: Dave Jones 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 -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." Architectures needed: ia64 m68k mips64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sh v850 x86-64