linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue for v2.6.36

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Message-ID: <1280944987.21608.53.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com>
Date:	Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:03:07 -0700
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...eaurora.org>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@...e.de>,
	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>,
	Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Andy Walls <awalls@...ix.net>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue for v2.6.36

On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 19:53 +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Daniel Walker wrote:
> > I haven't seen anything that shows your adding back the same
> > expressiveness that your removing .. So I still don't think this should
> > be merged.
> 
> Do you mean by expressiveness the ability to hack around a suboptimally
> working driver in userland (by requiring the administrator to play with
> kernel thread priorities of dedicated worker threads)?  Is it known
> whether this driver/ these drivers still require this hack after Tejun's
> patch set is applied?  If yes, how about finding someone to fix this
> driver for good.  Meanwhile, let's gets rid of the problem of having
> both too few and too many workers in countless present usages of the
> workqueue API please.

I mean by expressiveness the fact that a user can prioritize their
system more fully in the current system.

Daniel

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