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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: use single threaded work queue
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:22:25 +1000
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On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 14:23 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Well, that's the same thread pool suggestion that Jeff came up with.
> And
> I agree, that's a nicer long term solution (it's also how the per-bdi
> flushing replacement works). The problem with that appears to be that
> any suggested patchset for thread pools spiral into certain "but what
> color should it be?!" death.
> 
> I'll try and work up a simple create_threadpool() implementation, we
> can
> literally cut away hundreds of threads with that.

Don't we have one already ? Dave Howells slow_work or such ?

Ben.