Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Jan 2009 11:09:32 -0800 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] fastboot: Asynchronous function calls to speed up kernel boot |
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On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:05:26 +0100 Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> Surely the thread should die again boot up? On module load > synchronisity is usually not a problem.
sadly that's not correct in practice based on the fast boot work we've done.
> > Personally I think it would be better to make this more generic. > Various subsystems have thread pool implementations now,
sort of kinda. If a good one appears I'd be happy to build on top of that, assuming it's generic enough.
> and this > is just another variant that except for the sequence stuff > isn't all that much different. So it would be better to have > a generic worker thread manager that just supports these > barriers too.
... or maybe think about seeing this system as exactly that thread manager?
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