Re: [PATCH 0/3] workqueue: async worker destruction

[Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>]

Sorry, the cover letter was forgotten to send to LKML.

On 02/18/2014 12:24 AM, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> This patchset moves the worker-destruction(partial) to worker_thread(),
> and worker to be die will perform self-destruction.
> 
> This async worker destruction helps us to reduce the mananger's invocation,
> and simply the idle-worker-timeout handler.
> 
> This patchset requires earlier patch
> "workqueue: ensure @task is valid across kthread_stop()".
> 
> Lai Jiangshan (3):
>   workqueue: free worker earlier in worker_thread()
>   workqueue: async worker destruction
>   workqueue: kick worker to die directly in idle timeout handler
> 
>  kernel/workqueue.c |  135 +++++++++++++++++++---------------------------------
>  1 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-)
>