From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:09:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: pthread_create() slow for many threads; also time to revisit 64b context switch optimization? In-Reply-To: <48A303EE.8070002@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <20080813104445.GA24632@elte.hu> <20080813063533.444c650d@infradead.org> <48A2EE07.3040003@redhat.com> <20080813142529.GB21129@elte.hu> <48A2F157.7000303@redhat.com> <20080813151007.GA8780@elte.hu> <48A2FC17.9070302@redhat.com> <20080813154043.GA11886@elte.hu> <48A303EE.8070002@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ulrich Drepper Cc: Ingo Molnar , Arjan van de Ven , akpm@linux-foundation.org, hugh@veritas.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, briangrant@google.com, cgd@google.com, mbligh@google.com, Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" List-ID: On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > The real problem is: what to do if somebody complains? Ulrich, I don't understand why you worry more about a _potential_ (and fairly unlikely) complaint, than about a real one today. Thinking ahead may be good, but you take it to absolutely ridiculous heights, to the point where you make potential problems be bigger than -actual- problems. Linus -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org