Re: [Lse-tech] [PATCH 00/11] Task watchers: Introduction

[Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>]

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 20:40 +1000, Peter Williams wrote:
> Matt Helsley wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 02:07 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:35:29 -0700
> >> Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> wrote:

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> >>> Alternately,
> >>> I could produce patches that apply on top of the current set.
> >> It depends on how many of the existing patches are affected.  If it's just
> >> one or two then an increment would be fine.  If it's everything then a new
> >> patchset I guess.
> > 
> > It would affect most of them -- I'd need to change the bits that
> > register a notifier block. So I'll make a separate series.
> 
> How about making WATCH_TASK_INIT and friends flags so that clients can 
> then pass a mask (probably part of the notifier_block) that specifies 
> which ones they wish to be notified of.  This would save unnecessary 
> function calls.
> 
> Peter

	Yes, I was considering that. However, I realized that it still would
involve either multiple notifier blocks or significant, non-intuitive
changes in the notifier chain code so that one notifier block could be
registered on multiple chains.

	I'll keep this suggestion in mind.

Cheers,
	-Matt Helsley