From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dhowells@redhat.com,
sfrench@samba.org, anton@samba.org, airlied@linux.ie,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] gfs2: use workqueue instead of slow-work
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:20:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1279880457.2465.15.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1279658102-20069-6-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org>
Hi,
On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 22:35 +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Workqueue can now handle high concurrency. Convert gfs to use
> workqueue instead of slow-work.
>
> * Steven pointed out that recovery path might be run from allocation
> path and thus requires forward progress guarantee without memory
> allocation. Create and use gfs_recovery_wq with rescuer. Please
> note that forward progress wasn't guaranteed with slow-work.
>
> * Updated to use non-reentrant workqueue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
I'm assuming that you'll push this along with the workqueue changes?
Probably easier than pushing it through my tree,
Steve.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-23 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-20 20:34 [PATCHSET wq#for-next] workqueue: replace slow-work with workqueue Tejun Heo
2010-07-20 20:34 ` [PATCH 1/7] fscache: convert object to use workqueue instead of slow-work Tejun Heo
2010-07-20 20:34 ` [PATCH 2/7] fscache: convert operation " Tejun Heo
2010-07-20 20:34 ` [PATCH 3/7] fscache: drop references to slow-work Tejun Heo
2010-07-20 20:34 ` [PATCH 4/7] cifs: use workqueue instead of slow-work Tejun Heo
2010-07-21 15:46 ` Steve French
2010-07-20 20:35 ` [PATCH 5/7] gfs2: " Tejun Heo
2010-07-22 20:45 ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-23 10:20 ` Steven Whitehouse [this message]
2010-07-23 11:13 ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-20 20:35 ` [PATCH 6/7] drm: " Tejun Heo
2010-07-22 20:45 ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-22 21:11 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-22 21:17 ` Tejun Heo
2010-07-20 20:35 ` [PATCH 7/7] slow-work: kill it Tejun Heo
2010-07-22 21:00 ` [PATCHSET wq#for-next] workqueue: replace slow-work with workqueue Tejun Heo
2010-07-23 11:22 ` Tejun Heo
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