Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:44:28 +0200 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: Overview of concurrency managed workqueue |
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Hello,
On 06/15/2010 08:40 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Tejun Heo wrote: > >> == Benefits >> >> * Less to worry about causing deadlocks around execution resources. >> >> * Far fewer number of kthreads. >> >> * More flexibility without runtime overhead. >> >> * As concurrency is no longer a problem, workloads which needed >> separate mechanisms can now use generic workqueue instead. This >> easy access to concurrency also allows stuff which wasn't worth >> implementing a dedicated mechanism for but still needed flexible >> concurrency. > > Start the whole with the above? Otherwise people get tired of reading > before finding out what the point of the exercise is?
Yeah, maybe that would have been better. I was going for a nice closing but who cares about closing if the opening is boring. I'll reorder on the next round.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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