Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance | Date | Wed, 18 Dec 2002 15:41:39 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> said: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 10:40:24AM -0300, Horst von Brand wrote: > > [Extremely interesting new syscall mechanism tread elided] > > > > What happened to "feature freeze"?
> *bites lip* it's fairly low impact *duck*. > Given the wins seem to be fairly impressive across the board, spending > a few days on getting this right isn't going to push 2.6 back any > noticable amount of time.
Ever hear Larry McVoy's [I think, please correct me if wrong] standard rant of how $UNIX_FROM_BIG_VENDOR sucks, one "almost unnoticeable performance impact" feature at a time?
Similarly, Fred Brooks tells in "The Mythical Man Month" how schedules don't slip by months, they slip a day at a time...
> This stuff is mostly of the case "it either works, or it doesn't". > And right now, corner cases like apm aside, it seems to be holding up > so far. This isn't as far reaching as it sounds. There are still > drivers being turned upside down which are changing things in a > lot bigger ways than this[1] > > Dave > > [1] Myself being one of the guilty parties there, wrt agp.
Fixing a broken feature is in for me. Adding new features is supposed to be out until 2.7 opens. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - 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/
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