I do think you have a point here, especially in the last sentence. The original blog post also could have been more constructive in how it worded its criticism.

I do think you have a point here, especially in the last sentence. The original blog post also could have been more constructive in how it worded its criticism. As usual, this could be accomplished by being more precise. "Spin locks experience high latency under the Linux scheduler" would be a fine title for a blog post. Whether it would have received any upvotes is another question though. Maybe we, the voters, in our crow-like attraction to shiny titles, are as much to blame as anyone for the poor communication here.