On Wed, 7 Jan 2015, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 8:56 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pi...@linaro.org> > wrote: > >> > >> Yes, I actually would mind, unless you have a damn good reason for it. > > > > Consistency. > > Fuck no. > > "Completely made up number that you cannot explain" is not consistency.
Again this statement. I'm not against it as this is a true statement. I really wonder how you can describe my intent with that statement though. We must be living in different universes. This is so wrong as not to be funny anymore. If you don't want to see my reply that's fine. It'll be there for the posterity at least. If That's because you're just too proud to concede I'm right then this is very sad. All I'm trying to tell you is that 6 *is* a "Completely made up number that you cannot explain" for user space and that's what we have right now in mainline for some ARM machines. What I'm advocating for is a number that is _not_ completely made up. I'm advocating for a bogomips which meaning is well known and dates back to early Linux releases: the number of loops performed by the CPU during a jiffy, scaled to a second worth of jiffies, divided by 2 because there are 2 instructions in that loop. Incidentally this very definition is the one you provided yourself in this thread. That's what I want, yet you qualify this as a "Completely made up number that you cannot explain". > So you want to make bogomips a totally random number, that has no > meaning, no correlation to any clocksource, and no correlation to cpu > frequency either? Yeah right. I challenge you to quote anything I said in my previous email where I clearly explained everything in 6 points what I want. Anything you may quote to substantiate that statement of yours about what I want. Everyone following this thread knows you can't. But you probably didn't even read it. It might hurt too much. Sheesh. Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
