Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:20:42 +0100 | From | Pierre Ossman <> | Subject | Re: feature-removal-schedule obsoletes |
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Jörn Engel wrote: > Why does the MMC block driver use a thread? Is there a technical > reason for this or could it be done in original process context as > well, removing some code and useless cpu scheduler overhead? >
I'm afraid I don't know the block layer very well, but that thread seems to be polling the block layer for requests and handing the over to the routines in mmc_block.c.
How do you set it up so that the block layer itself calls the necessary function?
Rgds
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