Re: [PATCH] lockdep: lock contention tracking

From: hui
Date: Mon May 21 2007 - 06:22:34 EST


On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:55:47AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:36:39AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > you got the history wrong i think: the first version of lockdep was
> > released to lkml a year ago (May 2006), while the first time you
> > mentioned your lock contention patch was November 2006 and you released
> > it to lkml in December 2006 - so it was _you_ who was "replicating the
> > same work", not lockdep :-) And this was pointed out to you very early
> > on, many months ago.
>
> And lockmeter, the very first patch of this sort is from the 90s, but
> got mostly ignored here on lkml, of course :)

Unfortunately, it's not nearly as cool as my patch by default because I wrote
it. :)

bill

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