Re: Fix up riscom8 driver to use work queues instead of task queueing.

Linus Torvalds
2003-08-18T19:36:38Z

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> There was talk in another thread about fixing up workqueue to create
> a new kernel thread, if one isn't available within five seconds.

That's probably reasonable. Together with some upper limit to active
threads, along with timeouting old queues when idle it would be fairly
flexible. It's how basically all servers end up working, after all. It
shouldn't be that hard to do.

Linus