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Message-ID: <4C49794F.6010400@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:13:19 +0200
From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dhowells@...hat.com,
sfrench@...ba.org, anton@...ba.org, airlied@...ux.ie,
dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] gfs2: use workqueue instead of slow-work
On 07/23/2010 12:20 PM, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 22:35 +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Workqueue can now handle high concurrency. Convert gfs to use
>> workqueue instead of slow-work.
>>
>> * Steven pointed out that recovery path might be run from allocation
>> path and thus requires forward progress guarantee without memory
>> allocation. Create and use gfs_recovery_wq with rescuer. Please
>> note that forward progress wasn't guaranteed with slow-work.
>>
>> * Updated to use non-reentrant workqueue.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
>> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
> Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
>
> I'm assuming that you'll push this along with the workqueue changes?
> Probably easier than pushing it through my tree,
Yeah, I'll route this through the wq tree with all other workqueue
related changes.
Thank you.
--
tejun
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