From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754762AbZAZUnq (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:43:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751470AbZAZUnh (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:43:37 -0500 Received: from relay2.sgi.com ([192.48.179.30]:57783 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750988AbZAZUng (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:43:36 -0500 Message-ID: <497E2075.7040003@sgi.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:43:33 -0800 From: Mike Travis User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070801) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Andrew Morton , rusty@rustcorp.com.au, mingo@redhat.com, davej@redhat.com, cpufreq@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] work_on_cpu: Use our own workqueue. References: <20090116191108.135927000@polaris-admin.engr.sgi.com> <20090116191108.533053000@polaris-admin.engr.sgi.com> <20090124001537.7cfde78e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200901261711.43943.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <20090125230130.bcdab2e5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090126171618.GA32091@elte.hu> <20090126103529.cb124a58.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090126202022.GA8867@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20090126202022.GA8867@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ... >> We have one single (known) caller in the whole kernel. This is not >> worth adding another great pile of kernel threads for! > > i'd expect there to be more as part of the cpumask stack reduction > patches that Rusty and Mike are working on. There are currently 10 instances queued up in tip/cpus4096 along with another four "FIXME: use work_on_cpu()" comments.