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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:01:11 +1100 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org> To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] create workqueue threads only when needed On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 21:19 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:37:41 +1100 > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org> wrote: > > > > > > I don't know, most of those I've looked on are not documented about > > > the reason for a private workqueue. I guess most of them can use > > > the usual kevent. > > > > The main problem with kevent is that it gets clogged up. > > > > That's were thread pools kick in ... tried using Dave Howells slow > > work ? > > async function calls are pretty much the same and actually in mainlinme. > Dave Howells stuff in addition plays some extremely weird refcounting > games that I cannot imagine anyone but him needing... I missed that new shinny stuff, I'll have a look. Cheers, Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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