linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH, v10 3/3] cgroups: introduce timer slack controller

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Message-ID: <1318864713.4172.59.camel@twins>
Date:	Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:18:33 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@...inter.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	jacob.jun.pan@...ux.intel.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>, harald@...hat.com,
	david@...ar.dk, greg@...ah.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH, v10 3/3] cgroups: introduce timer slack controller

On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 17:11 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> For a while people were promoting the idea that its good to be lenient
> in what you accept as input and strict in what you send out. I think
> people are starting to realize that was a horrid mistake since now
> they're getting utter crap and people don't even know what right is
> anymore. 

Since different apps might have treated similar non-conformant input
differently and now no single behaviour is correct.

I think either dhowells or dwmw2 had a good blog post on that a while
back.
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