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SubjectRe: [PATCH 16/19] workqueue: reimplement workqueue flushing using color coded works
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On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 19:40 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 12/07/2009 05:46 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > A sudden influx of high prio worklets would hold back the completion of
> > existing worklets, so simply waiting for a particular colour to deplete
> > is going to last a long while.
> >
> > The barrier semantics I implemented ensured worklets couldn't cross a
> > barrier, so if a high prio item got stuck behind a barrier it would
> > simply elevate the priority of everything before the barrier, and would
> > complete everything before that barrier before running itself.
> >
> > This insures progress and thereby guarantees completion of flushes.
>
> Hmmm... I haven't really thought about priority aware implementation
> but if we're gonna do that with global shared workers, the logical way
> to do it would be to have separate workers with higher priority so
> that the prioritizing and starvation prevention can be handled by the
> schduler as it does for all other tasks. What kind of priorities are
> we talking about? How granual?

Currently the normal 140 priority ones.



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