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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]  Add iwlwifi wireless drivers
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 19:00:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46537603.6040208@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46534172.5040106@linux.intel.com>

James Ketrenos wrote:
> That said -- if the driver can execute in parallel to the stack for some 
> operations, shouldn't they remain on their own workqueues so the work 
> can be divided up vs. having *everything* routed through one 
> singlethread workqueue?

Just because it -can-, does not mean it should.

Unless there is a -proven- need for the operations to be parallel, you 
should avoid the burden of such complexity.

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-22 23:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-16 21:45 [PATCH] Add iwlwifi wireless drivers James Ketrenos
2007-05-17  1:27 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-17  4:28   ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-17  5:57     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-22 21:38       ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-18 19:01   ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-18 20:57     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-18 20:54       ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-18 21:06     ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-22 18:39       ` John W. Linville
2007-05-22 18:29         ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-17  1:51 ` Michael Wu
2007-05-17  2:56   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-17  3:55     ` Michael Wu
2007-05-17  8:52   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-22 19:16   ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-22 23:00     ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-05-22 21:49       ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-22 23:41         ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-22 22:56           ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-23  0:58             ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-23 18:17               ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-23 19:59                 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-23 19:30                   ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-23  1:06     ` Michael Wu
2007-05-23  1:46       ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-17  3:35 ` [PATCH] Add iwlwifi wireless drivers [part 2/2] Randy Dunlap
2007-05-17 15:03   ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-05-17 15:05   ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-05-18  7:04     ` Johannes Berg
2007-05-18 20:33   ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-18 22:05     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-18 21:31       ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-18 22:50         ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-18 23:04         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-21 14:56           ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-21 16:26             ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-21 16:48               ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-21 18:15                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-21 20:12                   ` Cohen, Guy
2007-05-21 21:02                     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-21 21:10                       ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-21 21:43                         ` Cohen, Guy
2007-05-21 22:15                           ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-21 21:22                     ` Joerg Mayer
2007-05-21 21:46                       ` Cohen, Guy
2007-05-18 22:13     ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-18 23:05 ` [PATCH] Add iwlwifi wireless drivers Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-18 23:22   ` Michael Wu
2007-05-22 21:50 ` [PATCH v3] " James Ketrenos
2007-05-23  1:06   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-23 15:16     ` James Ketrenos

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