Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:03:03 -0800
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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       Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 32/40] async: introduce workqueue based alternative
 implementation
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On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:08:16 +0900
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:

> 
> Yeap, but then again, whatever we do, all those synchronization
> interfaces can be mapped onto each other eventually.

and maybe we need to be smart about this;
for me, sharing the backend implementation (the pool part) makes sense,
although a thread pool really is not much code. But a smart thread pool
may be.

as for interfaces, I really really think it's ok to have different
interfaces for usecases that are very different, as long as the
interfaces are logical in their domain. I rather have 2 interfaces, each
logical to their domain, than a forced joined interface that doesn't
really naturally fit either.


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