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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 23:30:17 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] Workqueue Abstraction, 2.5.40-H7
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On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> At the risk of being on-topic <g>, would it be reasonable to request a
> 2.4 version of this patch, that can be used in driver-compat code and
> vendor kernels?  i.e. something that makes the workqueue API work in
> 2.4, no more, no less.

i've concentrated all the code into kernel/workqueue.c, and all the
interfaces into include/linux/workqueue.h - so you can simply copy those
into the 2.4 tree and it should just work. There should be no namespace
collision either. A O(1) scheduler tree is needed, due to
set_cpus_allowed(), but there is no other dependency i think.

	Ingo

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