Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758557Ab0FOSpr (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:45:47 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:57572 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758526Ab0FOSpo (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:45:44 -0400 Message-ID: <4C17CA0C.80301@kernel.org> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:44:28 +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: Christoph Lameter CC: mingo@elte.hu, awalls@radix.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, dhowells@redhat.com, arjan@linux.intel.com, johannes@sipsolutions.net, oleg@redhat.com, axboe@kernel.dk Subject: Re: Overview of concurrency managed workqueue References: <1276551467-21246-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <4C17C598.7070303@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: 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]); Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:44:30 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1132 Lines: 35 Hello, On 06/15/2010 08:40 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Tejun Heo wrote: > >> == Benefits >> >> * Less to worry about causing deadlocks around execution resources. >> >> * Far fewer number of kthreads. >> >> * More flexibility without runtime overhead. >> >> * As concurrency is no longer a problem, workloads which needed >> separate mechanisms can now use generic workqueue instead. This >> easy access to concurrency also allows stuff which wasn't worth >> implementing a dedicated mechanism for but still needed flexible >> concurrency. > > Start the whole with the above? Otherwise people get tired of reading > before finding out what the point of the exercise is? Yeah, maybe that would have been better. I was going for a nice closing but who cares about closing if the opening is boring. I'll reorder on the next round. 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/