linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lockdep: lock contention tracking

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Message-ID: <20070521102149.GD4593@gnuppy.monkey.org>
Date:	Mon, 21 May 2007 03:21:49 -0700
From:	Bill Huey (hui) <billh@...ppy.monkey.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	"Bill Huey (hui)" <billh@...ppy.monkey.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lockdep: lock contention tracking

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:55:47AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:36:39AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > you got the history wrong i think: the first version of lockdep was 
> > released to lkml a year ago (May 2006), while the first time you 
> > mentioned your lock contention patch was November 2006 and you released 
> > it to lkml in December 2006 - so it was _you_ who was "replicating the 
> > same work", not lockdep :-) And this was pointed out to you very early 
> > on, many months ago.
> 
> And lockmeter, the very first patch of this sort is from the 90s, but
> got mostly ignored here on lkml, of course :)

Unfortunately, it's not nearly as cool as my patch by default because I wrote
it. :)

bill

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