From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Linux-pm mailing list <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Subject: Re: Singlethread vs. freezable workqueues
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 21:54:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705212154.34490.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0705211531530.5679-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Hi,
On Monday, 21 May 2007 21:33, Alan Stern wrote:
> Raphael:
>
> Are we now committed to making freezable workqueues always
> singlethreaded? Is it at all likely to change back? Or should I
> introduce a "create_singlethread_freezeable_workqueue" macro?
This was done as a quick fix of an issue with one driver that started to use
(broken) freezable workqueues when we were not watching. ;-)
We are going to have multithread freezable workqueues as well, but that'll
take some time. We've discussed this a bit with Oleg and I believe he has an
idea of how it can be done cleanly.
Greetings,
Rafael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-21 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-21 19:33 Singlethread vs. freezable workqueues Alan Stern
2007-05-21 19:54 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2007-05-21 20:23 ` Alan Stern
2007-05-21 21:20 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-05-22 12:45 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-05-22 15:03 ` Alan Stern
2007-05-22 16:26 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-05-21 20:54 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-05-21 21:28 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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