Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756923Ab0HDSDT (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2010 14:03:19 -0400 Received: from wolverine01.qualcomm.com ([199.106.114.254]:44489 "EHLO wolverine01.qualcomm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756818Ab0HDSDQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2010 14:03:16 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="5400,1158,6064"; a="49869148" Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] workqueue for v2.6.36 From: Daniel Walker To: Stefan Richter Cc: Tejun Heo , Linus Torvalds , lkml , Ingo Molnar , Jens Axboe , Jeff Garzik , David Howells , Arjan van de Ven , Andrew Morton , Oleg Nesterov , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Suresh Jayaraman , Steven Whitehouse , Steve French , Frederic Weisbecker , Andy Walls , Christoph Lameter In-Reply-To: <4C59A90B.8040403@s5r6.in-berlin.de> References: <4C596D21.4080101@kernel.org> <1280939168.21608.10.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> <4C59A90B.8040403@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:03:07 -0700 Message-ID: <1280944987.21608.53.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1274 Lines: 29 On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 19:53 +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > Daniel Walker wrote: > > I haven't seen anything that shows your adding back the same > > expressiveness that your removing .. So I still don't think this should > > be merged. > > Do you mean by expressiveness the ability to hack around a suboptimally > working driver in userland (by requiring the administrator to play with > kernel thread priorities of dedicated worker threads)? Is it known > whether this driver/ these drivers still require this hack after Tejun's > patch set is applied? If yes, how about finding someone to fix this > driver for good. Meanwhile, let's gets rid of the problem of having > both too few and too many workers in countless present usages of the > workqueue API please. I mean by expressiveness the fact that a user can prioritize their system more fully in the current system. Daniel -- Sent by an consultant of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum. -- 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/