Re: [PATCH 0/6] Lazy workqueues

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Mon Aug 24 2009 - 04:04:38 EST


On Sat, Aug 22 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 14:08 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > ...
> >> That's pretty new... But perhaps I should complain too, it's been
> >> annoying me forever.
> >
> > http://marc.info/?l=git&m=123457137328461&w=2
> >
> > Apparently it didn't happen, nor did I ever see a reply to that posting.
> >
> > Junio, what happened here?
>
> Nothing happened.
>
> I do not recall anybody objecting to, but then when nothing happened in
> neither 1.6.3 nor 1.6.4, nobody jumped up-and-down demanding the change of
> default either. So overall impression I got from this was that nobody
> really cared deeply enough either way.

That's some strange logic right there :-). Of course nobody complained,
they thought it was a done deal.

> But we are talking about 1.7.0 to become a release to correct wrong
> defaults we have had once and for all ;-), and I am tempted to roll this
> topic into the mix. Here is what I queued to my 'next' branch tonight.

OK that's at least something, looking forward to being able to prune
that argument from my scripts. It completely destroys viewability of
larger patchsets.

--
Jens Axboe

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