From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
tom.leiming@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel:async function call:introduce async_run_inatomic(v2)
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 13:07:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090518130738.46af51b4@gondolin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090517140358.751e12b7@infradead.org>
On Sun, 17 May 2009 14:03:58 -0700,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> there are some very good reasons to have the option to wait for all;
> module unloading comes to mind for example.
So we would need async_run_synchronize() as something that waits on the
special domain for those cases...
>
> I'd not like it to automatically punt all async "inatomic" work to a
> separate space; that should be an option for the caller.
I think the idea is only to push the "simple" cases to that domain; a
normal "inatomic" function that allows a domain to be specified should
be added as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-18 11:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-13 15:51 [PATCH] kernel:async function call:introduce async_run_inatomic(v2) tom.leiming
2009-05-13 17:11 ` Cornelia Huck
2009-05-14 3:19 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-05-17 21:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-05-18 11:07 ` Cornelia Huck [this message]
2009-05-14 4:36 ` Ming Lei
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