Re: [PATCH 19/19] workqueue: implement concurrency managed workqueue

Ingo Molnar
2009-10-01T15:12:57Z

* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 17:09:18 +0900 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> > To solve the above issues, this patch implements concurrency-managed
> > workqueue.
>
> Seems reasonable.
>
> This approach would appear to rule out the option of setting a work
> thread's state (scheduling policy, scheduling priority, uid, etc) to
> anything other than some default.
>
> I guess that's unlikely to be a problem if we haven't yet had a need
> to do that, but I'd be a bit surprised to discover that nobody has
> done that sort of thing yet? Nobody has niced up their workqueue
> threads?

tuna in -rt might do that perhaps?

Ingo