Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753714AbYJOVQe (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:16:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755068AbYJOVQX (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:16:23 -0400 Received: from relay.2ka.mipt.ru ([194.85.80.65]:59114 "EHLO 2ka.mipt.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754908AbYJOVQW (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:16:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:18:12 +0400 From: Evgeniy Polyakov To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Andrew Morton , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: [PATCH] fastboot: Introduce an asynchronous function call mechanism Message-ID: <20081015211812.GA30735@2ka.mipt.ru> References: <20081012194427.2e21c22e@infradead.org> <20081015014117.faff3a61.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20081015075246.2e1610f3@infradead.org> <20081015095905.41219c9d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20081015162316.0a0c284a@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081015162316.0a0c284a@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1197 Lines: 32 Hi Arjan. [ I've switched to the different mail system recently, you could update you blacklist filter, or we can bury the war axe: ipw2100 still does not work with power tricks :) ] On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 04:23:16PM -0400, Arjan van de Ven (arjan@infradead.org) wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:59:05 -0700 > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > > > > Please talk to Evgeniy about his new thread_pool stuff which I've > > > > suggested become a generic library. > > > > ^^ this? > > if thread pools can deliver me the same ordering guarantees..... > which I kinda doubt given the point of the concept of them.. One can schedule execution on given thread in the pool (actually on given set of threads, which have the same private pointer), if needed threads are busy, caller will sleep, if there are no such threads, execution fails. Although I'm not quite sure this is exactly what you asked for. -- Evgeniy Polyakov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/