Re: [PATCH 32/40] async: introduce workqueue based alternative implementation

Arjan van de Ven
2010-01-18T06:01:48Z

On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:57:44 +0900
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:

> Now that cmwq can handle high concurrency, there's no reason to
> implement separate thread pool for async. Introduce alternative
> implementation based on workqueue.
>

I'm sorry but I'm really not happy with this conversion;
it looses the very nice property of being able to execute and
synchronize between places at the end just before device registration.

I don't mind the implementation sharing thread pool with your stuff,
but I really really want to keep the cookie and synchronization
mechanism. There's a bunch of users of that pending and doing things
sequential entirely just is not going to cut it.

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