Quotes of the week
[Posted September 11, 2013 by corbet]
Dropping the spinlocks means more cores; unfortunately, a quad-core
seems to be the limit. Users must divide their time between reading
history and contributing to the present: some amount of persistent
data is a must on every user's machine. Pixel seems to be heading
in the wrong direction: that's what is stressing us out.
— Somebody seems to have unleashed
a robot
on linux-kernel.
Let's see if I can remember the candidates...
rcu_is_cpu_idle() # reversed sense from the others
rcu_is_ignored() # reversed sense from the others
rcu_is_not_active() # reversed sense from the others
rcu_is_watching_cpu()
rcu_read_check()
rcu_is_active()
rcu_is_active_local()
rcu_is_online()
rcu_is_watching_task()
rcu_is_watching_thread()
rcu_is_watching_you()
all_your_base_are_belong_to_rcu()
rcu_is_active_loco()
rcu_kilroy_was_here()
Maybe I should just lock them all in a room overnight and see which
are still alive in the morning.
—
Paul McKenney struggles with naming
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