Re: workqueue thing

Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-23T08:44:22Z

On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 09:17 +0100, Stijn Devriendt wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> > One reason I liked a more dynamic frame work for this is that it
> > has the potential to be exposed to user space and allow automatic
> > work partitioning there based on available cores. User space
> > has a lot more CPU consumption than the kernel.
> >
> Basically, this is exactly what I was trying to solve with my
> sched_wait_block patch. It was broken in all ways, but the ultimate
> goal was to have concurrency managed workqueues (to nick the term)
> in userspace and have a way out when I/O hits the workqueue.

Don't we have the problem of wakeup concurrency here?

Forking on blocking is only half the problem (and imho the easy half).