Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266912AbUJFEMw (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 00:12:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266910AbUJFEMw (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 00:12:52 -0400 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:36549 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266912AbUJFEMg (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2004 00:12:36 -0400 Subject: Re: Preempt? (was Re: Cannot enable DMA on SATA drive (SCSI-libsata, VIA SATA)) From: Lee Revell To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Nick Piggin , Robert Love , Roland Dreier , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <4163660A.4010804@pobox.com> References: <4136E4660006E2F7@mail-7.tiscali.it> <41634236.1020602@pobox.com> <52is9or78f.fsf_-_@topspin.com> <4163465F.6070309@pobox.com> <41634A34.20500@yahoo.com.au> <41634CF3.5040807@pobox.com> <1097027575.5062.100.camel@localhost> <20041006015515.GA28536@havoc.gtf.org> <41635248.5090903@yahoo.com.au> <20041006020734.GA29383@havoc.gtf.org> <20041006031726.GK26820@dualathlon.random> <4163660A.4010804@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1097035953.1359.15.camel@krustophenia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 00:12:34 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 561 Lines: 15 On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 23:27, Jeff Garzik wrote: > If users and developers are presented with the _impression_ that long > latency code paths don't exist Users do not care whether some "long latency code path" exists in theory. They only notice results. The developer part of your argument is valid though. Lee - 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/