Quotes of the week

According to my quick & dirty git-log analysis, at the current pace of [big kernel lock] removal we'd have to wait more than 10 years to remove most BKL critical sections from the kernel and to get acceptable latencies again.

Even if you're totally right, with Nick's mmu notifiers, Rusty's mmu notifiers, my original mmu notifiers, Christoph's first version of my mmu notifiers, with my new mmu notifiers, with christoph EMM version of my new mmu notifiers, with my latest mmu notifiers, and all people making suggestions and testing the code and needing the code badly, and further patches waiting inclusion during 2.6.27 in this area, it must be obvious for everyone, that there's zero chance this code won't evolve over time to perfection, but we can't wait it to be perfect before start using it or we're screwed.

19:29	*	dilinger sends his patch to lkml for a proper flaming
19:32		Quozl> dilinger: it's called "patch hardening"? ;-} the heat of the flames makes the patch stronger.