Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 16 Sep 2001 21:04:21 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.10pre7aa1 |
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On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 07:23:16PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > I can't quite remember if it was Linus or Larry who said: > > > > "Threads are for people who don't understand state machines" > > > > > > If you cannot make your code clean without adding another > > thread, it's probably a bad sign ;) > > Ask yourself why libaio in glibc uses threads.
Because glibc always uses the more bloated appropeach if there is a choice?
/me runs
> When there's no async-io > hook you have no choice. Adding the hook is an advantage if you're going > to use it during production, much better than > rescheduling/creating/destroying various threads during production, but > if you only need to register the hook once per day you'd waste time all > the production time checking if somebody is registered in the hook.
I'd really like to see Ben's worktodo's in 2.4 - they are usefull even without his whole asynchio framework and don't need big kernel changes..
Christoph
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