Quotes of the week

Hey, it was only meant to be a single release. Now they can all die as far as I'm concerned.

In days of old in 2.6.29, netfilter did locketh using a lock of the reader kind when doing its table business, and do a writer when with pen in hand like a overworked accountant did replace the tables. This sucketh and caused the single lock to fly back and forth like a poor errant boy.

But then netfilter was blessed with RCU and the performance was divine, but alas there were those that suffered for trying to replace their many rules one at a time.

So now RCU must be vanquished from the scene, and better chastity belts be placed upon this valuable asset most dear. The locks that were but one are now replaced by one per suitor.

The repair was made after much discussion involving Eric the wise, and Linus the foul. With flowers springing up amid the thorns some peace has finally prevailed and all is soothed.

First of all, I happily admit that wrt locking I'm a barbarian, and proud of it. I.e. simpler locking scheme beats theoretical improvement, unless we have really good evidence that there's a real-world problem. All things equal, complexity loses. All things not quite equal - ditto.