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    SubjectRe: Overview of concurrency managed workqueue
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    On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 15:30 +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
    > On 06/16/2010 03:27 PM, Daniel Walker wrote:
    > >> Yes, that is. With new cmwq, a wq can't assume association with
    > >> specific kthread and thus can't use wq as simple frontend to kthreads,
    > >> but if somebody wants dedicated kthreads instead of shared ones in
    > >> units of work, [s]he should be using kthread.
    > >
    > > I'm not talking about coders using workqueues when they should be using
    > > kthreads .. We're talking about currently existing workqueues. Aren't
    > > you converting all _current_ workqueues to your system?
    >
    > Yes, sure I'm but which current users are you talking about?

    Any workqueue that has a thread which can be prioritized from userspace.
    As long as there is a thread it can usually be given a priority from
    userspace, so any _current_ workqueue which uses a single thread or
    multiple threads is an example of what I'm talking about.

    Daniel



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