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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] firmware_class: Move request_firmware_nowait() to workqueues
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On Wednesday, March 28, 2012, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 02:28:30PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > Oddly enough a work_struct was already part of the firmware_work
> > structure but nobody was using it. Instead of creating a new
> > kthread for each request_firmware_nowait() call just schedule the
> > work on the long system workqueue. This should avoid some overhead
> > in forking new threads when they're not strictly necessary.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
> > ---
> >
> > Is it better to use alloc_workqueue() and not put these on the system
> > long workqueue?
>
> No, just use schedule_work() unless there are specific requirements
> which can't be fulfilled that way (e.g. it's on memory allocation
> path, may consume large amount of cpu cycles, ...)

It may wait quite long.

Rafael


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