netdev - Re: [PATCH] bonding: change spinlocks and remove timers in favor of workqueues

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Date:	Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:22:01 -0800
From:	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
To:	"Andy Gospodarek" <andy@...yhouse.net>
cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: change spinlocks and remove timers in favor of workqueues 

Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net> wrote:
[...]
>My patch actually only uses a single workqueue for each bond (almost
>exactly like yours in-fact) with 4 different types of work that can be
>placed on it.

	Well, what I was trying to say was that there are still multiple
independently scheduled thingies on the workqueue (although you can't
ever have all of them going at the same time), whereas in the Big Patch,
there's only one scheduled thingie on the workqueue, and everything is
dispatched from within its single handler (making it less complicated to
pause all of the "timers" for mutual exclusion purposes).

	-J

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	-Jay Vosburgh, IBM Linux Technology Center, fubar@...ibm.com
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