Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756083Ab0GWLNn (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:13:43 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:34265 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755386Ab0GWLNk (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:13:40 -0400 Message-ID: <4C49794F.6010400@kernel.org> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:13:19 +0200 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Thunderbird/3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Whitehouse CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dhowells@redhat.com, sfrench@samba.org, anton@samba.org, airlied@linux.ie, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] gfs2: use workqueue instead of slow-work References: <1279658102-20069-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <1279658102-20069-6-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <1279880457.2465.15.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1279880457.2465.15.camel@localhost> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (hera.kernel.org [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:13:20 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1167 Lines: 33 On 07/23/2010 12:20 PM, Steven Whitehouse wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 22:35 +0200, Tejun Heo wrote: >> Workqueue can now handle high concurrency. Convert gfs to use >> workqueue instead of slow-work. >> >> * Steven pointed out that recovery path might be run from allocation >> path and thus requires forward progress guarantee without memory >> allocation. Create and use gfs_recovery_wq with rescuer. Please >> note that forward progress wasn't guaranteed with slow-work. >> >> * Updated to use non-reentrant workqueue. >> >> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo >> Cc: Steven Whitehouse > Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse > > I'm assuming that you'll push this along with the workqueue changes? > Probably easier than pushing it through my tree, Yeah, I'll route this through the wq tree with all other workqueue related changes. Thank you. -- 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/