Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Feb 2009 21:19:09 -0800 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] create workqueue threads only when needed |
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On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:37:41 +1100 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > > I don't know, most of those I've looked on are not documented about > > the reason for a private workqueue. I guess most of them can use > > the usual kevent. > > The main problem with kevent is that it gets clogged up. > > That's were thread pools kick in ... tried using Dave Howells slow > work ?
async function calls are pretty much the same and actually in mainlinme. Dave Howells stuff in addition plays some extremely weird refcounting games that I cannot imagine anyone but him needing...
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