On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 18:19:41 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:No argument there. If you have the kind of lock contention where fairness matters, the contention is probably what needs to be fixed, not the locking mechanism. Having said that, making bugs like that less likely to totally wedge a system would be a good thing for everybody who uses Linux in production. Exposing bugs is good for development, bad for business. -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan -
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| James Morris | Re: LSM conversion to static interface |
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| Wink Saville | Resolving conflicts |
| Junio C Hamano | Re: [PATCH] Teach git-gui to split hunks |
| Linus Torvalds | Re: kde.git is now online |
| Steffen Prohaska | [PATCH] cygwin: added fopen "b" and open O_BINARY to support cygwin's textmode |
| Almir Karic | Re: find -exec {} help |
| Richard Stallman | Real men don't attack straw men |
| Khalid Schofield | Configuring sendmail openbsd 4.2 |
| Timo Myyrä | Encrypting home partition |
| David Miller | [GIT]: Networking |
| Andi Kleen | [PATCH] Add a statistics counter for tx hash miss |
| David Miller | Re: [BUG] kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:1328! |
| David Miller | Re: netif_schedule and mpc5200_fec |
