Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756591AbYHMRKq (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:10:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751087AbYHMRKg (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:10:36 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:39716 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751487AbYHMRKg (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:10:36 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:09:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds 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" 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> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 651 Lines: 19 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 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/