Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Dec 2009 14:17:34 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [stable] aim7 scalability issue on 4 socket machine |
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On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 10:11:05PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Sun 2009-12-06 21:11:36, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > - It must be obviously correct and tested. > > > - It cannot be bigger than 100 lines, with context. > > > - It must fix only one thing. > > > - It must fix a real bug that bothers people (not a, "This could be a > > > problem..." type thing). > > > > A significant slow down in a common situation is a "significant > > bug that bothers people" > > Well, IIRC it was benchmark that was slowed down, on huge system, so > it was exactly "this could be a problem". > > Anyway, I don't care about -stable series too much (and sorry for > replying to such an old mail), but perhaps the docs should be updated? > > Examples cited there are such as "data corruption" or "oops", which is > clearly different ballpark then "slowdown".
Why does it really matter if the intent is the thing that matters here.
Deal with specifics on a case-by-case basis, and if you don't really care about this, then why dig up a many-month old thread?
strange,
greg k-h
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