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SubjectRe: [PATCH UPDATED 1/3] vhost: replace vhost_workqueue with per-vhost kthread
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 05:46:30PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On 07/26/2010 05:34 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On 07/26/2010 05:25 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >> BTW, kthread_worker would benefit from the optimization I implemented
> >> here as well.
> >
> > Hmmm... I'm not quite sure whether it's an optimization. I thought
> > the patch was due to feeling uncomfortable about using barriers? Is
> > it an optimization?
>
> Yeah, one less smp_mb() in execution path. The lock dancing in
> flush() is ugly but then again mucking with barriers could be harder
> to understand. Care to send a patch against wq#for-next tree?
>
> Thanks.

Sure. Where's that, exactly?

> --
> tejun


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