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Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 10:17:29 +0800 From: Hillf Danton <dhillf@...il.com> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> Subject: Re: [PATCH] replace ida in workqueue with page-sized buffer On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Hillf Danton <dhillf@...il.com> wrote: > The id of worker of global work queue is monitored with kernel library, ida. > > The ida in global work queue is redefined to be page-sized buffer, > which is allocated when initializing workqueue. > > The new id allocator could monitor ids in the rage from 0 to INT_MAX. > The buffer is used to store freed ids, and if the peak number of ids, > in workqueue as whole, is not out of the capacity of the allocated > buffer, there is no more allocation of buffer after initializing. > > The advantage looks that the new allocator runs faster. > > Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@...il.com> Hey Ingo Please take a glance at the patch for replacing ida in workqueue at https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/12/18/35 thanks Hillf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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