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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:55:32 -0800
From: "Michael K. Edwards" <medwards.linux@...il.com>
To: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.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>,
"Ulrich Drepper" <drepper@...hat.com>,
"Zach Brown" <zach.brown@...cle.com>,
"Evgeniy Polyakov" <johnpol@....mipt.ru>,
"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 2/21/07, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
> pthread_cancel() [if/once threadlets are integrated into pthreads] ought
> to do that. A threadlet, if it gets moved to an async context, is a
> full-blown thread.
The fact that you are proposing pthread_cancel as a model for how to
abort an unfinished threadlet suggests -- to me, and I would think to
anyone who has ever written code that had no choice but to call
pthread_cancel -- that you have not thought about this part of the
problem.
Cheers,
- Michael
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