Re: Singlethread vs. freezable workqueues

Alan Stern
2007-05-22T15:03:11Z

On Tue, 22 May 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> Probably Alan is right? Perhaps it is better to rename it to
> create_singlethread_freezeable_workqueue(). This way we don't need to audit
> the users when we add multithread freezable wqs.
>
> Also, this name is more consistent wrt
> create_workqueue/create_singlethread_workqueue.

I already sent in a revised patch and a request to revert the
create_singlethread_freezeable_workqueue() macro!

Whatever you guys decide, please let Greg and me know as soon as
possible. This particular fix is needed before 2.6.22 gets released.

Alan Stern