Re: Linux 2.6.0

[Krishna Akella <akellak@onid.orst.edu>]

Truly amazing job!!! Bravo!!!

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Krishna Akella

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On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
> 				"The beaver is out of detox"
> 						- Anon
>
> This should not be a big surprise to anybody on the list any more, since
> we've been building up to it for a long time now, and for the last few
> weeks I haven't accepted any patches except for what amounts to fairly
> obvious one-liners.

> To give you an example, one of the nastier bugs that we chased for the
> last five weeks was a bug that could only be reproduced reliably on a
> 16- or 32-way system, and only when the system had flaky disks. Putting in
> known-good disks made the problem disappear. Similarly, compiling the
> kernel with another compiler made the problem disappear.
>
> It turned out to be a really subtle bug wrt SMP ordering and stack
> allocation, and lots of thanks to Ram Pai for gathering all the
> information that eventually led to it being fixed. The fix was a one-liner
> and a big comment - but my point is that the quality of bugs has been
> pretty high lately, and we feel that we're in pretty good shape.

>
> 		Linus
>
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