Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757239Ab0FNWxy (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:53:54 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:47241 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757035Ab0FNWxx (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:53:53 -0400 Message-ID: <4C16B2B1.8010101@kernel.org> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:52:33 +0200 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Walker CC: Andrew Morton , mingo@elte.hu, awalls@radix.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, cl@linux-foundation.org, dhowells@redhat.com, arjan@linux.intel.com, johannes@sipsolutions.net, oleg@redhat.com, axboe@kernel.dk Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] workqueue: concurrency managed workqueue, take#5 References: <1276551467-21246-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <20100614145839.8ac7687a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4C16AA75.8030303@kernel.org> <1276554672.3505.199.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> <4C16AE4B.609@kernel.org> <1276554931.3505.200.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> <4C16B0CA.9060107@kernel.org> <1276555752.3505.204.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> In-Reply-To: <1276555752.3505.204.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (hera.kernel.org [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:52:42 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1020 Lines: 26 On 06/15/2010 12:49 AM, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 00:44 +0200, Tejun Heo wrote: >> On 06/15/2010 12:35 AM, Daniel Walker wrote: >>> What is you definition of "concurrency" ? and explain try to explain it >>> in terms of your patchset. >> >> How many workers are concurrently executing? What else? Eh... I'll >> write up another summary tomorrow. Let's talk it there. > > I'd suggest If you write up another description try to not use the word > concurrency .. That term can be used for all sorts of things, and it > doesn't covey enough detail for anyone to know what your implementation > is actually doing. So is "manage" and "level of concurrency" is often used to describe exactly this type of property. I'll try to be clear. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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/