From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, mingo@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kthread_create
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 23:33:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FF251B1.4070404@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031231042016.958DC2C04B@lists.samba.org>
Rusty Russell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Ingo read through this before and liked it: this is the basis
> of the Hotplug CPU patch, and as such has been stressed fairly well.
> Tested stand-alone, and included here for wider review.
Hey, this is pretty cool.
Recalling threads from LKML past, there are two mechanisms I (and some
others) felt were missing from the equally nifty workqueue stuff:
1) one-shot threads
2) keventd overflow
For #1, your patch seems to cover that nicely.
For #2, that's to be used for situations where (a) you need a thread
context _and_ (b) you simply cannot wait for keventd to become available
(since there are no time guarantees).
Anyway, thanks for doing this, it fills a need, I believe.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-31 4:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-31 3:31 [PATCH 1/2] kthread_create Rusty Russell
2003-12-31 4:33 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-12-31 5:28 ` Rusty Russell
2003-12-31 6:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-31 8:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-01-01 23:51 ` Rusty Russell
2003-12-31 4:49 ` Andrew Morton
2003-12-31 5:18 ` Rusty Russell
2003-12-31 5:06 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-12-31 5:34 ` Rusty Russell
2003-12-31 5:56 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-12-31 6:27 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-01 3:45 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-02 7:09 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-02 16:58 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-03 3:05 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-03 3:43 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-03 11:47 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-04 4:23 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-03-29 15:42 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-03 19:00 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-03 23:53 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-04 2:34 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-04 4:42 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-04 4:55 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-04 9:35 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-04 23:03 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-05 4:09 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-05 5:06 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-05 6:38 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-05 6:52 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-07 7:00 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-07 7:25 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-08 0:33 ` Rusty Russell
2004-03-29 15:42 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-03-29 15:42 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-03-29 15:41 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-03-29 15:42 ` Rusty Russell
2004-03-29 15:40 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-03-29 15:41 ` Rusty Russell
2004-03-29 15:39 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-03-29 15:39 ` Rusty Russell
2004-03-29 15:38 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-12-31 6:31 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2003-12-31 7:12 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-12-31 23:25 ` Rusty Russell
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-31 18:02 Albert Cahalan
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