Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:31:15 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>, torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] De-macro spin_trylock_irq, spin_trylock_irqsave,
	write_trylock_irqsave
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* Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> wrote:

> >> (but it would also be hugely invasive, with not much upside with 
> >> tons of downside like years of migration fallout and having to 
> >> rewrite hundreds of kernel hacking books ;-) )
> >
> > I want my money back for scheduler chapter from "Understanding the 
> > Linux Kernel"!
> 
> I agree that this argument of Ingo's is not a very good one... ;)

i see the smiley, but still - there's a huge difference between the 
"pain" caused by a much better scheduler [ hey, did you expect me to say 
anything else? ;-) ] and a rather arbitrary value->pointer parametering 
change to a core API that is used _everywhere_.

	Ingo
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