linux-kernel - Re: [4/7] dst: thread pool.

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Message-Id: <1229544192.16253.37.camel@pasglop>
Date:	Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:03:12 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [4/7] dst: thread pool.


> Have you looked at the last discussion involving thread pools in Linux?
> BenH brought up the topic earlier this year, it is archived on
> https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-2008-discuss/2008-July/000213.html
> 
> So while it seems that there is clearly a use for such infrastructure,
> my feeling is that it should not be part of dst, but rather live
> in a location where it can be used by every subsystem.
> 
> Of course getting it there means another flame war^W^W discussion about what
> the right interface should look like.
> 
> My personal feeling is that the interface should look a lot like
> the existing work queues, to the point where you can easily convert
> drivers between them, or even move all work queues over to thread pools.

The idea after KS was to use David Howells slow_work, maybe massaging
the interfaces a bit.

I haven't had time to dedicate to that yet myself. David, what are you
up to with your initial implementation ?

Cheers,
Ben.


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