Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Sep 1998 22:32:22 -0400 | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] scheduler patch, faster still |
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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 19:07:51 -0400 From: Dennis Grant <dg50@chrysler.com>
Firstly, I feel that you and your partner in ill manners yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu are being way too hard on this guy. It's one thing if he's mistaken and you're trying to help him see his error - but I don't see that.
Actually, I think Larry and Victor have been remarkably restrained, in the face of some of Mr. Gooch's mail to this list. Larry and Victor both have a lot of experience in this area, and quite frankly their opinions carry a lot more weight with me at least than Mr. Gooch.
Sometimes mathematicians get fed up when people repeatedly make claims that they can square the circle, and demand that their proofs must be right unless they can spot the error in the proof. While said mathematicians may end up being brusque dealing with such claims on sci.math, it doesn't change the fact that the mathematicians are right. (It's amsuing to see these folks claim that there must be a conspiracy to suppress their "wonderful" discovery --- and no, mathematicians aren't the only ones who get these kinds of claims. Physists get it all the time with perpetual motion machines.)
He thinks it provides benefit, let him prove it. You and your fellow flamer feel it does not, then disprove it.
Mr. Gooch is the one who has the burden of proof, since he's the one that wants to add the additional complexity to the kernel. He has been claiming that he has met this standard of proof. In the judgement of Larry, Victor, as well as myself, he has not.
In any case, we have more important fish to fry as we try to get the last of the polishing done before we release Linux 2.2. Can we put aside flames about whether we should be making changes to the Linux scheduler until after 2.2 goes out the door? Surely I hope most people agree this is not the time to add a destablizing change to the kernel!
- Ted
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