From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] fastboot: Asynchronous function calls to speed up kernel boot Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 11:52:16 -0800 Message-ID: <20090104115216.db746414.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20090104092430.7ffd2c41@infradead.org> <20090104092857.5fbf6b2d@infradead.org> <87k59aops9.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <20090104110932.6563cc6d@infradead.org> <20090104194946.GB496@one.firstfloor.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:45658 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760221AbZADTxA (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2009 14:53:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090104194946.GB496@one.firstfloor.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Andi Kleen Cc: Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu, fweisbec@gmail.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 20:49:46 +0100 Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > > and this > > > is just another variant that except for the sequence stuff > > > isn't all that much different. So it would be better to have > > > a generic worker thread manager that just supports these > > > barriers too. > > > > ... or maybe think about seeing this system as exactly that thread > > manager? > > I'm not sure it's generic enough. There's appreciable overlap with David Howells's "slow work" thread pool thingy. If either of those was generic enough, the other would go away.