LWN: Comments on "Semaphores and mutexes"

Ingo's contributions

pimlott — 2005-12-23T00:58:02+00:00

he hardly reads the literature

Don't forget that Linux became only possible because 20 years of OS research was carefully studied, analyzed, discussed and thrown away.

Ingo Molnar

Red Hat folks on fire

bojan — 2005-12-22T23:05:42+00:00

There was a discussion once on LWN, started by LM of BK fame, about Red Hat not being an innovative company or some such. Now, with this stuff from Ingo and the new syscalls from Ulrich, I think such talk has been put to rest and all in the space of two LWN articles :-)

Ingo's contributions

brugolsky — 2005-12-22T14:13:02+00:00

When one looks back on Ingo's contributions to kernel performance/functionality, the mind boggles. He's the Richard Feynman of kernel hacking -- he hardly reads the literature, he just thinks and codes clearly, and he even has a bit of the showman in him.

Semaphores and mutexes

nix — 2005-12-22T12:09:51+00:00

That initial post of mingo's ranks up there with his initial O(1) scheduler patch as a classic of patch posting. It does *everything* right (at least on a diplomatic level; this being mingo we can pretty much assume a good design as well). It puts virtally every piece of corporate presentation puffing some new thing or other to shame.