Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:19:40 +0200 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHSET] backing-dev: replace private thread pool with workqueue |
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Hello,
On 09/07/2010 02:16 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > What does this conversion buy us? > > Having explicit per-bdi threads makes the model very simple and safe, > while I don't quite trust the now extremly complex work queues yet.
Well, the whole idea behind the new workqueue is unifying all those dedicated pools of threads. If the conversion is too early given the new workqueue implementation, we can postpone bdi conversion by one more release cycle, but in the long run there is no point in keeping these private thread pools.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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