From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip 0/3] expedited "big hammer" RCU grace periods Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:54:02 -0700 Message-ID: <20090625175402.GB8852@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20090624164535.GA13334@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090624180303.GE7576@elte.hu> <20090624184423.GK6779@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090625095953.GC29980@elte.hu> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, davem@davemloft.net, dada1@cosmosbay.com, zbr@ioremap.net, jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com, paulus@samba.org, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, jengelh@medozas.de, r000n@r000n.net, benh@kernel.crashing.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca To: Linus Torvalds Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 09:47:02AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > Our general preference is to zap code. > > > > /me stares at: > > > > $ git diff --stat -M v2.6.30..v2.6.31-rc1 | tail -1 > > 7743 files changed, 782278 insertions(+), 403162 deletions(-) > > > > /me corrects himself: > > Yes. Our general preference is to zap code, if only because it's so damn > unusual. > > When one out of a hundred patches actually has more removals than > additions, we make a big deal out of it ("Look - I actually simplified > things"). For the 99 other patches we never size in polite company. > > Oh well. But every time we add lines, we do it with the _best_ intentions. Indeed, I must confess that my recent patch removing about 1,000 lines of code is not all that typical of my submissions... Thanx, Paul