From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] create workqueue threads only when needed
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:49:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1233586140.5903.95.camel@desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090127001708.GA4815@nowhere>
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 01:17 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> All of the workqueues with 0 work inserted do nothing.
> For several reasons:
>
> _ Unneeded built drivers for my system that create workqueue(s) when they init
> _ Services which need their own workqueue, for several reasons, but who receive
> very rare jobs (often never)
> _ ...?
>
Some of the workqueues you have on your system can be removed just by
tuning your kernel config. It's more desirable to be able to remove the
whole unused feature since that's all unused memory beyond just
thread ..
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-02 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-27 0:17 [RFC][PATCH] create workqueue threads only when needed Frederic Weisbecker
2009-01-27 0:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-31 18:03 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-01-31 18:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-31 18:28 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-02-01 16:22 ` Stefan Richter
2009-02-01 17:04 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-02-01 17:40 ` Stefan Richter
2009-02-01 17:47 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-02-01 18:06 ` Stefan Richter
2009-02-01 18:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-02-01 21:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-02-02 2:24 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-02-02 6:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-02-02 8:42 ` Stefan Richter
2009-02-02 9:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-02-02 9:14 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-02-02 9:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-02-02 9:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-02-02 10:03 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-02-02 20:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-02-04 9:54 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-02-02 11:39 ` Stefan Richter
2009-02-02 11:32 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-02-02 11:26 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-02-02 5:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-02-02 6:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-02-02 9:01 ` Stefan Richter
2009-02-02 14:45 ` Arjan van de Ven
[not found] ` <20090126162807.1131c777.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-27 1:46 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-01-27 8:40 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-01-27 3:07 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2009-01-27 8:57 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-01-27 12:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-02 14:49 ` Daniel Walker [this message]
2009-02-02 14:51 ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2009-02-02 15:40 ` Daniel Walker
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