Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] airo driver: fix races, oops, etc.. | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | 05 Aug 2003 11:48:12 +0200 |
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On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 10:53, Javier Achirica wrote: > I've integrated this patch in my code. I've done a major change: Instead > of using schedule_delayed_work(), I create a new workqueue and use > queue_work() on that queue. As all tasks sleep in the same lock, I can > queue them there and make them sleep instead of requeueing them. > > I haven't sent them to Jeff yet, as I want to do more testing. If you want > to help testing them, please tell me.
Well... creating a work queue means you create one thread per CPU, that sucks a bit don't think ? Maybe using a single thread for the driver with your own queuing primitives...
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