linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] workqueue: Correct/Drop references to gcwq in Documentation

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Message-ID: <52152948.6080302@infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 21 Aug 2013 13:55:36 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:	Libin <huawei.libin@...wei.com>
CC:	tj@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, wangyijing@...wei.com,
	guohanjun@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] workqueue: Correct/Drop references to gcwq in
 Documentation

On 08/20/13 17:50, Libin wrote:
> No functional changes. This patch fixes the post gcwq comments in
> Documentation/workqueue.txt.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Libin <huawei.libin@...wei.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/workqueue.txt | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
>  1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/workqueue.txt b/Documentation/workqueue.txt
> index a6ab4b6..5e65b1c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/workqueue.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/workqueue.txt
> @@ -85,16 +85,16 @@ workqueue.
>  Special purpose threads, called worker threads, execute the functions
>  off of the queue, one after the other.  If no work is queued, the
>  worker threads become idle.  These worker threads are managed in so
> -called thread-pools.
> +called worker-pools.
>  
>  The cmwq design differentiates between the user-facing workqueues that
>  subsystems and drivers queue work items on and the backend mechanism
> -which manages thread-pools and processes the queued work items.
> +which manages worker-pools and processes the queued work items.
>  
> -The backend is called gcwq.  There is one gcwq for each possible CPU
> -and one gcwq to serve work items queued on unbound workqueues.  Each
> -gcwq has two thread-pools - one for normal work items and the other
> -for high priority ones.
> +There are two worker-pools, one for normal work items and the other
> +for high priority ones, for each possible CPU and some extra worker-pools
> +to serve work items queued on unbound workqueues - the number of these
> +baking pools is dynamic.

   backing ?

>  
>  Subsystems and drivers can create and queue work items through special
>  workqueue API functions as they see fit. They can influence some



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~Randy
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