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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:37:11 -0700 From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, axboe@...nel.dk, laijs@...fujitsu.com, fengguang.wu@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jmoyer@...hat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] writeback: replace custom worker pool implementation with unbound workqueue Hey, Christoph. On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 09:08:19AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > Hmm... I guess, then, what we can do is adding a worker description > > > which is printed out with task dump. ie. A work function can call > > > work_set_desc(fmt, arg....). It won't be expensive and can be > > > implemented relatively easily. Does that sound good enough? > > Yeah, that sounds good! Thanks! > > How about automatically doing this based on the workqueue name? We already have that information and just need to print it. The thing is some users including writeback want further identifying information inside the workqueue. The same workqueue would be serving all writeback work items but it would be nice to be able to distinguish which specific device was being serviced, so we need more information than the associated workqueue. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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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