Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761085AbZDQSqQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:46:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755750AbZDQSqB (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:46:01 -0400 Received: from hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de ([141.43.120.68]:59850 "EHLO hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755507AbZDQSqA (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:46:00 -0400 Message-ID: <49E8CE66.8050709@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:45:58 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090303 SeaMonkey/1.1.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven CC: Jeff Garzik , LKML , Andrew Morton , David Howells Subject: Re: How to completely disable async fastboot? References: <49E679D0.7050600@garzik.org> <20090415183137.4d19a7c8@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20090415183137.4d19a7c8@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 908 Lines: 23 On 4/16/2009 3:31 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:20:32 -0400 > Jeff Garzik wrote: >> > commit 9710794383ee5008d67f1a6613a4717bf6de47bc ... >> not only changes a default, it completely removes the ability to turn >> off async AFAICS. > > this is on the request of Andrew and others who want to be able to use > these API's (soon) in an "forced offload" scenario. Indeed, because the async API is a threadpool API. However, 2.6.30-rc1 also gained David Howell's , and I for one am still wondering which one of these I'm going to use... -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--= -=-- =---= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- 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/