Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263480AbTEOBQ0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 21:16:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263506AbTEOBQ0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 21:16:26 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:63500 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263480AbTEOBQZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 21:16:25 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 18:28:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andrew Morton cc: ch@murgatroid.com, , , Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.68 FUTEX support should be optional In-Reply-To: <20030514182526.36823e2b.akpm@digeo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 960 Lines: 25 On Wed, 14 May 2003, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I believe this effort is more targetted at teeny little embedded gadgets - > devices which are very remote from workstations, desktops and servers. And even there futexes are (a) faster and (b) smaller than SYSVIPC. So assuming you ever want threading in an embedded world (not unlikely at all, since things like DVD playback etc are mostly done with threads), you want futexes. > Presumably the people who are programming such gadgets will know if they > need futexes or not. Yes. We can make tit a CONFIG option, and then force it to always be "y" in the .config file. And then the people who really know and really care can turn the "y" to a "n". Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/