linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Delayed interrupt work, thread pools

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Message-ID: <486BE4EA.5030808@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:28:26 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
CC:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
	ksummit-2008-discuss@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jeremy Kerr <jk@...abs.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Delayed interrupt work, thread pools

James Bottomley wrote:
> Easier to implement, yes.  Easier to program, unlikely, and coming with
> a large amount of overhead, definitely.
> 
>> BTW, if something like this is implemented, I think that it should be a
>> replacement for softirqs and tasklets.
> 
under the "better steal right (from other open source) than invent wrong" mantra:
it's worth looking at what glib does here; I've used their threadpools before and
it worked really well for me.... we could learn a lot from that

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