linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] Lazy workqueues

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Message-ID: <20090824080429.GC12579@kernel.dk>
Date:	Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:04:29 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Junio C Hamano <junio@...ox.com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jeff@...zik.org,
	benh@...nel.crashing.org, htejun@...il.com, bzolnier@...il.com,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Lazy workqueues

On Sat, Aug 22 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 14:08 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > ...
> >> That's pretty new... But perhaps I should complain too, it's been
> >> annoying me forever.
> >
> > http://marc.info/?l=git&m=123457137328461&w=2
> >
> > Apparently it didn't happen, nor did I ever see a reply to that posting.
> >
> > Junio, what happened here?
> 
> Nothing happened.
> 
> I do not recall anybody objecting to, but then when nothing happened in
> neither 1.6.3 nor 1.6.4, nobody jumped up-and-down demanding the change of
> default either.  So overall impression I got from this was that nobody
> really cared deeply enough either way.

That's some strange logic right there :-). Of course nobody complained,
they thought it was a done deal.

> But we are talking about 1.7.0 to become a release to correct wrong
> defaults we have had once and for all ;-), and I am tempted to roll this
> topic into the mix.  Here is what I queued to my 'next' branch tonight.

OK that's at least something, looking forward to being able to prune
that argument from my scripts. It completely destroys viewability of
larger patchsets.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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