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Subject: Re: low-latency patches
To: akpm@zip.com.au (Andrew Morton)
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> Right.  It needs to be a conscious, planned decision:  "from now on,
> holding a lock for more than 500 usecs is a bug".

Firstly you can start with "of course some hardware will stall the bus
longer than that"
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