From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeaurora.org>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>,
Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>,
Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue for v2.6.36
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:03:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1280944987.21608.53.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C59A90B.8040403@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 19:53 +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Daniel Walker wrote:
> > I haven't seen anything that shows your adding back the same
> > expressiveness that your removing .. So I still don't think this should
> > be merged.
>
> Do you mean by expressiveness the ability to hack around a suboptimally
> working driver in userland (by requiring the administrator to play with
> kernel thread priorities of dedicated worker threads)? Is it known
> whether this driver/ these drivers still require this hack after Tejun's
> patch set is applied? If yes, how about finding someone to fix this
> driver for good. Meanwhile, let's gets rid of the problem of having
> both too few and too many workers in countless present usages of the
> workqueue API please.
I mean by expressiveness the fact that a user can prioritize their
system more fully in the current system.
Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-04 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-04 13:37 [GIT PULL] workqueue for v2.6.36 Tejun Heo
2010-08-04 16:26 ` Daniel Walker
2010-08-04 17:53 ` Stefan Richter
2010-08-04 18:03 ` Daniel Walker [this message]
2010-08-09 20:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-08-09 20:09 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2010-08-09 20:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-08-09 21:29 ` Tejun Heo
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