From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: ksummit-2008-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Delayed interrupt work, thread pools
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:22:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <486B0298.5030508@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1214916335.20711.141.camel@pasglop>
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Here's something that's been running in the back of my mind for some
> time that could be a good topic of discussion at KS.
>
> In various areas (I'll come up with some examples later), kernel code
> such as drivers want to defer some processing to "task level", for
> various reasons such as locking (taking mutexes), memory allocation,
> interrupt latency, or simply doing things that may take more time than
> is reasonable to do at interrupt time or do things that may block.
>
> Currently, the main mechanism we provide to do that is workqueues. They
> somewhat solve the problem, but at the same time, somewhat can make it
> worse.
>
> The problem is that delaying a potentially long/sleeping task to a work
> queue will have the effect of delaying everything else waiting on that
> work queue.
>
how much of this would be obsoleted if we had irqthreads ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-02 4:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-01 12:45 Delayed interrupt work, thread pools Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-01 12:53 ` [Ksummit-2008-discuss] " Matthew Wilcox
2008-07-01 13:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-01 13:02 ` Robin Holt
2008-07-02 1:39 ` Dean Nelson
2008-07-02 2:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-02 2:47 ` Dave Chinner
2008-07-02 14:27 ` [Ksummit-2008-discuss] " Hugh Dickins
2008-07-02 4:22 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2008-07-02 5:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-02 11:02 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-02 11:19 ` Leon Woestenberg
2008-07-02 11:24 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-02 20:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-02 14:11 ` James Bottomley
2008-07-02 20:00 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-07-02 20:22 ` James Bottomley
2008-07-02 20:28 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-02 20:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-07-02 21:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-02 21:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-03 10:12 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-07-03 10:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-07 14:09 ` Chris Mason
2008-07-07 23:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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