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    SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH] create workqueue threads only when needed
    On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 05:00:43PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
    > On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 03:24 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
    > > On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 08:37:41AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
    > > >
    > > > > I don't know, most of those I've looked on are not documented about the reason
    > > > > for a private workqueue. I guess most of them can use the usual kevent.
    > > >
    > > > The main problem with kevent is that it gets clogged up.
    > >
    > >
    > > I don't think so. Here is a snapshot of the workqueue tracer in my
    > > box currently:
    >
    > That's not quite what I meant ...
    >
    > The main problem with keventd I'd say is that it's used in all sort of
    > exeptional code path (ie, driver reset path, error handling, etc...) for
    > things that will msleep happily for tenth milliseconds, that sort of
    > thing.
    > IE. It will be pretty responsive -in general- but can suffer form
    > horrible latencies every now and then.


    So I think it should be reserved for small, quick jobs which don't sleep for
    too much time.
    I can improve the workqueue tracer to localize these callsites if needed. And
    why not warn on such cases if some kind of option is selected.


    > Cheers,
    > Ben.
    >



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