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From: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>,
	Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Subject: Re: feature-removal-schedule obsoletes
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:20:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4547B01A.2060700@drzeus.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061031155756.GA23021@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>

Jörn Engel wrote:
> Why does the MMC block driver use a thread?  Is there a technical
> reason for this or could it be done in original process context as
> well, removing some code and useless cpu scheduler overhead?
>   

I'm afraid I don't know the block layer very well, but that thread seems
to be polling the block layer for requests and handing the over to the
routines in mmc_block.c.

How do you set it up so that the block layer itself calls the necessary
function?

Rgds

-- 
     -- Pierre Ossman

  Linux kernel, MMC maintainer        http://www.kernel.org
  PulseAudio, core developer          http://pulseaudio.org
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-31 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-15 14:32 feature-removal-schedule obsoletes Jiri Slaby
2006-10-15 15:05 ` Jean Delvare
2006-10-16 13:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-10-24 19:24   ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-24 19:28     ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-24 20:55     ` Jörn Engel
2006-10-28  8:34     ` Pierre Ossman
2006-10-28 10:06       ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-28 10:57       ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-11-13 15:15         ` Pierre Ossman
2006-11-13 18:22           ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-10-31 15:57       ` Jörn Engel
2006-10-31 19:32         ` Russell King
2006-10-31 21:41           ` Jörn Engel
2006-10-31 20:20         ` Pierre Ossman [this message]

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