Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:55:27 +0200 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 34/35] async: use workqueue for worker pool |
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Hello,
On 06/29/2010 05:52 PM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: >>> If there is a question of slow ports to probe, then cmwq wouldn't seem the >>> right thing here, as it only forks when we go to sleep. >> >> I lost you here. If something during boot has to burn cpu cycles >> (which it shouldn't, really), it has to burn cpu cycles and having >> multiple concurent threads won't help anything. > > It would on SMP.
Oh, I see. Parallel cpu hogs. We don't have such users for async and I think using padata would be the right solution for those situations.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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