From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan-Bernd Themann Subject: Re: ehea work queues Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 16:43:04 +0200 Message-ID: <200710011643.04180.ossthema@de.ibm.com> References: <20070930162019.GE28619@kryten> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: themann@de.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Anton Blanchard Return-path: Received: from mtagate4.uk.ibm.com ([195.212.29.137]:53127 "EHLO mtagate4.uk.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752176AbXJAOnd (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2007 10:43:33 -0400 Received: from d06nrmr1407.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06nrmr1407.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.38.185]) by mtagate4.uk.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l91EhW20092204 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 14:43:32 GMT Received: from d06av01.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06av01.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.37.212]) by d06nrmr1407.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.5) with ESMTP id l91EhW6Z3121242 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 15:43:32 +0100 Received: from d06av01.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d06av01.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l91EhF3G001789 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 15:43:15 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20070930162019.GE28619@kryten> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi On Sunday 30 September 2007 18:20, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > Hi, > > I booted 2.6.23-rc8 and noticed that ehea loves its workqueues: > (notice also that the ehea_driver_wq/XXX exceeds TASK_COMM_LEN). > > Since they are both infrequent events and not performance critical > (memory hotplug and driver reset), can we just use schedule_work? > Yes. I'll provide a patch soon. Thanks, Jan-Bernd