Re: Linux 3.19-rc5

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Feb 06 2015 - 11:46:20 EST


On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I like the macro one though; I worry a wee bit about non-documented
> cases through. If someone is doing something way subtle we'll break it
> :/

Yeah, I agree. And I wonder how much we should even care. People who
do this thing by hand - rather than using the wait-event model - are
*likely* legacy stuff or just random drivers, or simply stuff that
isn't all that performance-sensitive.

So I dunno how worthwhile this all is.

Linus
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