From: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kthread: export park/unpark facility
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 09:20:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150709162017.GB24426@hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1507091003030.5134@nanos>
On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 10:05:02AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
> > This patch should definitely help most modules.
>
> And how exactly would this help modules?
Putting kthread to sleep and waking them up later is slightly
tricky :
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8144
The park and unpark API encapsulate this functionality in
a pretty nice and clean API, and avoid duplicating this code in
various modules. I'm all for sharing the joy ;-)
> Thanks,
>
> tglx
Regards,
Jean
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-09 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-09 0:40 [PATCH] kthread: export park/unpark facility Jean Tourrilhes
2015-07-09 3:23 ` Peter Hurley
2015-07-09 16:08 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2015-07-09 8:05 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-07-09 16:20 ` Jean Tourrilhes [this message]
2015-07-09 16:49 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-07-09 16:53 ` Jean Tourrilhes
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