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
rdesktop, core developer http://www.rdesktop.org
prev 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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