linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH UPDATED 1/3] vhost: replace vhost

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Message-ID: <4C4DDE7E.8030406@kernel.org>
Date:	Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:14:06 +0200
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
CC:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@...ial.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH UPDATED 1/3] vhost: replace vhost_workqueue with per-vhost
 kthread

On 07/26/2010 06:51 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 06:14:30PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Just one more thing.
> 
> I noticed that with vhost, flush_work was getting the worker
> pointer as well. Can we live with this API change?

Yeah, the flushing mechanism wouldn't work reliably if the work is
queued to a different worker without flushing, so yeah passing in
@worker might actually be better.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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