linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3

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Date:	Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:02:26 +0300
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
To:	"Michael K. Edwards" <medwards.linux@...il.com>
Cc:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@....com.au>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com>,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 07:03:21PM -0800, Michael K. Edwards (medwards.linux@...il.com) wrote:
> 
> State machines are much harder to write without going through a real
> on-paper design phase first.  But multi-threaded code is much harder
> for a team of average working coders to write correctly, judging from
> the numerous train wrecks that I've been called in to salvage over the
> last ten years or so.

130 lines skipped...

I have only one question - wasn't it too lazy to write all that? :)

> Cheers,
> - Michael

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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