Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [4/7] dst: thread pool. | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:03:12 +1100 |
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> Have you looked at the last discussion involving thread pools in Linux? > BenH brought up the topic earlier this year, it is archived on > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-2008-discuss/2008-July/000213.html > > So while it seems that there is clearly a use for such infrastructure, > my feeling is that it should not be part of dst, but rather live > in a location where it can be used by every subsystem. > > Of course getting it there means another flame war^W^W discussion about what > the right interface should look like. > > My personal feeling is that the interface should look a lot like > the existing work queues, to the point where you can easily convert > drivers between them, or even move all work queues over to thread pools.
The idea after KS was to use David Howells slow_work, maybe massaging the interfaces a bit.
I haven't had time to dedicate to that yet myself. David, what are you up to with your initial implementation ?
Cheers, Ben.
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