From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: jaxboe@fusionio.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] backing-dev: replace private thread pool with workqueue
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 14:16:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100907121608.GA26597@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1283777182-11426-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org>
What does this conversion buy us?
Having explicit per-bdi threads makes the model very simple and safe,
while I don't quite trust the now extremly complex work queues yet.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-07 12:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-06 12:46 [PATCHSET] backing-dev: replace private thread pool with workqueue Tejun Heo
2010-09-06 12:46 ` [PATCH 1/5] workqueue: implement workqueue_on_rescuer() Tejun Heo
2010-09-06 12:46 ` [PATCH 2/5] backing-dev: kill unused bdi_writeback->nr Tejun Heo
2010-09-08 8:57 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-09-06 12:46 ` [PATCH 3/5] backing-dev: replace private thread pool with workqueue Tejun Heo
2010-09-06 12:46 ` [PATCH 4/5] backing-dev: update trace points Tejun Heo
2010-09-06 12:46 ` [PATCH 5/5] backing-dev: replace sync_supers_tsk/timer with a delayed_work Tejun Heo
2010-09-08 9:00 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2010-09-07 12:16 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-09-07 12:19 ` [PATCHSET] backing-dev: replace private thread pool with workqueue Tejun Heo
2010-09-07 12:29 ` Jens Axboe
2010-09-07 12:36 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-27 16:02 ` Tejun Heo
2010-11-27 18:50 ` Jens Axboe
2010-11-27 20:30 ` Tejun Heo
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