Re: workqueue thing

Andi Kleen
2009-12-21T11:33:08Z

>> Also the nice thing about dynamically sizing the thread pool
>> is that if something bad (error condition that takes long) happens
>> in one work queue for a specific subsystem there's still a chance
>> to make process with other operations in the same subsystem.
>
> yup
> same is true for hitting some form of contention; just make an extra thread
> so that the rest can continue.

If you dynamically increase you can/should as well dynamically shrink too.
And with some more gimmicks you're nearly at what Tejun is proposing

Not sure what you're arguing against?

-Andi
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