Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755138AbZJAJ1B (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Oct 2009 05:27:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754689AbZJAJ1B (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Oct 2009 05:27:01 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:1986 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754377AbZJAJ1A (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Oct 2009 05:27:00 -0400 Message-ID: <4AC474F2.7070600@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:22:58 +0200 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090814 Fedora/3.0-2.6.b3.fc11 Lightning/1.0pre Thunderbird/3.0b3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Tejun Heo , Peter Zijlstra , Linus Torvalds , =?UTF-8?B?RnLDqWTDqXJpYyBXZWlzYmVja2Vy?= , jeff@garzik.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, cl@linux-foundation.org, dhowells@redhat.com, arjan@linux.intel.com Subject: Re: [RFC PATCHSET] workqueue: implement concurrency managed workqueue References: <1254384558-1018-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <20091001084040.GA15345@elte.hu> <4AC4725E.3070509@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4AC4725E.3070509@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 550 Lines: 15 On 10/01/2009 11:11 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: > > In fact I've thought of implementing threadlets and > concurrency-managed workqueues with preempt notifiers ;) Oh, and use them to make kernel_fpu_begin() preemptible. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic. -- 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/