From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
ranty@debian.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
willy@debian.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2.6.0-test3] request_firmware related problems.
Date: 12 Aug 2003 16:21:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1060701706.21159.26.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F36CE8D.8090201@pobox.com>
On Llu, 2003-08-11 at 00:00, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > 2) ponder perhaps an implementation that would use generic keventd until
> > a certain load is reached; then, create per-cpu kernel threads just like
> > private workqueue creation occurs now. i.e. switch from shared
> > (keventd) to private at runtime.
>
>
> 3) offer private workqueue interface like we have now -- but one thread
> only, not NN threads
4) Have one permanent thread running which kicks off another thread
whenever something has been on the queue for more than 5 seconds and
reaps threads when the queue is empty for 30 ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-12 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-10 21:06 Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-08-10 21:29 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-10 21:59 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-08-10 22:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-10 23:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-12 1:25 ` Handling workqueue threads (was: Re: [PATCH] [2.6.0-test3] request_firmware related problems.) Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-08-12 15:21 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-08-10 22:15 [PATCH] [2.6.0-test3] request_firmware related problems Manuel Estrada Sainz
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