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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.

  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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