Re: [PATCH] RT: Add priority-queuing and priority-inheritance to workqueue infrastructure

Ingo Molnar
2007-08-06T11:50:26Z

* Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> wrote:

> On 08/01, Gregory Haskins wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 02:22 +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > > No,
> >
> > You sure are a confident one ;)
>
> Yeah, this is a rare case when I am very sure I am right ;)
>
> I strongly believe you guys take a _completely_ wrong approach.
> queue_work() should _not_ take the priority of the caller into
> account, this is bogus.

Oleg, i'd like to make it sure that the role of Gregory Haskins is clear
here: he submitted some new infrastructure into the -rt tree, and i
reviewed that but found it quite complex and duplicative and suggested
him to think about enhancing workqueues with priority properties - which
might or might not make sense.

It is not the intention of the -rt project to pester any upstream
maintainer with -rt issues if that upstream maintainer is not interested
in it ... so please just forget about all this if you are not interested
in it, we'll sort it out within -rt. Thanks,

Ingo