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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:01:11 +1100
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
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, 2009-02-01 at 21:19 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:37:41 +1100
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > > I don't know, most of those I've looked on are not documented about
> > > the reason for a private workqueue. I guess most of them can use
> > > the usual kevent.
> >
> > The main problem with kevent is that it gets clogged up.
> >
> > That's were thread pools kick in ... tried using Dave Howells slow
> > work ?
>
> async function calls are pretty much the same and actually in mainlinme.
> Dave Howells stuff in addition plays some extremely weird refcounting
> games that I cannot imagine anyone but him needing...
I missed that new shinny stuff, I'll have a look.
Cheers,
Ben.
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