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

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Date:	Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:51:47 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [4/7] dst: thread pool.


> I have no objections against any implementation which will be imported
> into the tree and can change the code to use new API quickly, but since
> there is no code right now, I created my own thread pool.

Heh. I think I counted 3 or 4 thread pool implementations already in the
kernel though they are all ad-hoc attached to a given subsystem.

> Particulary DST needs ability to sleep or queue the work to be processed
> by the pool and API to flush/destroy the pool.

Cheers,
Ben.

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