Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 23:33:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 23:33:18 -0500 Received: from deimos.hpl.hp.com ([192.6.19.190]:38602 "EHLO deimos.hpl.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 23:33:13 -0500 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15464.39685.717074.844068@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 20:33:09 -0800 To: "David S. Miller" Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, davidm@hpl.hp.com, anton@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org Subject: Re: thread_info implementation In-Reply-To: <20020211.202108.77059987.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <15464.36074.246502.582895@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20020211.194222.34761071.davem@redhat.com> <15464.38684.48286.317465@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20020211.202108.77059987.davem@redhat.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.00 under Emacs 21.1.1 Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com X-URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 20:21:08 -0800 (PST), "David S. Miller" said: DaveM> The "loads are fast DaveM> on x86" comment I made is basically derived from something he DaveM> told someone else earlier today wrt. the thread_info stuff. DaveM> So let me rephrase what you've quoted "I totally beg to DaveM> differ, and I _know_ people like Linus will too." :-) And I know that Linus rejected earlier patches (from Nov 2001) on these grounds. --david - 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/