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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:00:48 +0900 From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> To: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com> CC: torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...e.hu, peterz@...radead.org, awalls@...ix.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jeff@...zik.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, jens.axboe@...cle.com, rusty@...tcorp.com.au, cl@...ux-foundation.org, dhowells@...hat.com, arjan@...ux.intel.com, avi@...hat.com, johannes@...solutions.net, andi@...stfloor.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 39/40] gfs2: use workqueue instead of slow-work Hello, On 01/18/2010 09:07 PM, Steven Whitehouse wrote: > Hmm, I thought I'd checked slow work pretty carefully before I decided > to use it :( Looking at it though, its pretty unlikely that it would > cause a problem. We can be 100% safe by just increasing the number of > slow work threads to one per mounted gfs2 fs (assuming no other slow > work users). I don't think that will guarantee anything as there's nothing which guarantees the new additional work to the gfs2 code. At any rate, these problems are pretty unlikely to happen but they still need guarantees, so... > Anyway, if its easy to solve that problem in the new code, thats all > good :-) Thanks for pointing out this issue, Yeap, I'll post updated patch soonish. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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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