Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965040AbVLVC5z (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:57:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965043AbVLVC5z (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:57:55 -0500 Received: from smtp103.plus.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.206.236]:13746 "HELO smtp103.plus.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S965040AbVLVC5z (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:57:55 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=IZ/olnohUlfugwfaTwXpGscmcSJTdj8ChfgH1gUtZSwe8mZS8vWVdCXsHERJwXr18m4EF6MwwUHo0ycKOpzFaUNFQrRZLigRWD6r4o10y1D+CflwJogh9FjhZ8y4frpIZca1f8q71+J6PM2LLbLnh5Sbol20ISUqR8ZfpmVFGRI= ; Message-ID: <43AA162C.3000905@yahoo.com.au> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 13:57:48 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Piggin CC: Jes Sorensen , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , lkml , Andrew Morton , Arjan van de Ven , Zwane Mwaikambo , Oleg Nesterov , David Howells , Alan Cox , Benjamin LaHaise , Steven Rostedt , Christoph Hellwig , Andi Kleen , Russell King , Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: [patch 0/8] mutex subsystem, ANNOUNCE References: <20051221155411.GA7243@elte.hu> <43AA1134.7090704@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: <43AA1134.7090704@yahoo.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 559 Lines: 18 Nick Piggin wrote: > I wonder if you can record a maximum > cost per op? That would be more interesting than either average or > standard deviation. > More interesting from a fairness point of view, I mean. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - 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/