From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fix up riscom8 driver to use work queues instead of task queueing.
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 17:24:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F41440D.9020000@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030818133226.66986354.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> pdflush could kinda-sorta be converted to use workqueues, but it doesn't
> want a thread per cpu.
That was another item in the recent thread about workqueues: other
kernel code is very suited to the workqueue API, but only needs one
thread, not a thread per cpu. Would be nice to have a JUST_ONE_THREAD
flag to pass to create_workqueue().
I bet adding such a flag would help alleviate some of the "I have 1001
kthreads on my 16-way" complaints ;-)
Jeff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-18 21:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200308181806.h7II6K6D014918@hera.kernel.org>
2003-08-18 18:09 ` Fix up riscom8 driver to use work queues instead of task queueing Jeff Garzik
2003-08-18 18:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-18 18:28 ` Russell King
2003-08-18 18:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-18 18:59 ` Russell King
2003-08-18 19:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-18 18:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-18 19:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-18 19:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-18 19:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-18 20:32 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-18 21:24 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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