Re: [4/7] dst: thread pool.

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

> Have you looked at the last discussion involving thread pools in Linux?
> BenH brought up the topic earlier this year, it is archived on
> https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-2008-discuss/2008-July/000213.html
> 
> So while it seems that there is clearly a use for such infrastructure,
> my feeling is that it should not be part of dst, but rather live
> in a location where it can be used by every subsystem.
> 
> Of course getting it there means another flame war^W^W discussion about what
> the right interface should look like.
> 
> My personal feeling is that the interface should look a lot like
> the existing work queues, to the point where you can easily convert
> drivers between them, or even move all work queues over to thread pools.

The idea after KS was to use David Howells slow_work, maybe massaging
the interfaces a bit.

I haven't had time to dedicate to that yet myself. David, what are you
up to with your initial implementation ?

Cheers,
Ben.