linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] create workqueue threads only when needed

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Message-ID: <20090201094727.4615305c@infradead.org>
Date:	Sun, 1 Feb 2009 09:47:27 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] create workqueue threads only when needed

On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:40:18 +0100
Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> wrote:

> I'm not quite sure yet but I believe I can run the work in the current
> context if there was an allocation failure, provided those failures
> are unlikely.
> 
> Hmm.  I don't see the "async/mgr" in the process list of that
> 2.6.29-rc3 box next to me.  Under which circumstances is this
> facility available (long after boot)?  Or am I just barging into a
> discussion to /make/ it available after boot?

for 2.6.29 only it was turned off by default, for 2.6.30 it will be on
by default.

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