Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:10:41 -0800 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [4/7] dst: thread pool. |
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On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:58:10 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > Thread pool is used for crypto processing of incoming and outgoing > > IO requests to reduce the overall overhead. > > This is at least our fourth thread pool implementation, not counting > kernel/workqueue.c: > > 1: pdflush
I will look at moving pdflush to async function calls.. sounds like a good "get over jetlag" project
> > 2: David Howells' "slow work" infrastructure
this one is *weird*. The infrastructure deals with object refcounting somehow.
> > 4: Your "dst thread pool"
from the context... I wouldn't be surprised if this can just use async function calls as well... it's simple enough on first sight.
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