RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] RE: SMP-g design notes

["Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>]

>From: Luck,Tony
>Sent: 2006年3月9日 8:55
>To: xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [Xen-ia64-devel] RE: SMP-g design notes
>
>> Because it is design time, here are some note about my SMP-g work.
>> The current patch is very small.  I tried only to bring-up SMP-g ASAP to
>catch
>> more SMP bugs.  Also I tried to minimize Linux kernel changes.
>                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
><philosophy>
>In almost all design decisions you need to make tradeoffs ... I don't
>think that "minimizing Linux kernel changes" should be very high up
>the list of priorities when making a choice.  Correctness is always
>at the top, meeting requirements, complexity, maintainability and
>performance should be close behind.  Not disturbing the existing source
>base too much is much further down the list (which is not to be
>interpreted as "Tony wants to see huge patches that change everything"
>... when they come, Tony wants to see intelligent patches that do the
>right things in the right layer rather than a minimal patch in one
>layer, and an ugly mess to compensate in another layer).
></philosophy>
>
>-Tony
>

Totally agree. :-P

Thanks,
Kevin

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