From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: ranty@debian.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, willy@debian.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2.6.0-test3] request_firmware related problems.
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 14:29:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030810142928.4b734e8d.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030810210646.GA6746@ranty.pantax.net>
Manuel Estrada Sainz <ranty@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Please apply the following patches.
Please, send just one patch per email, each one having its own changelog
info. There's just no way anyone's patch import tools can handle a single
changelog and multiple attachments. It is painful.
> - request_firmware_own-workqueue.diff:
> - In it's current form request_firmware_async() sleeps way too
> long on the system's shared workqueue, which makes it
> unresponsive until the firmware load finishes, gets canceled
> or times out.
Does this mean that we have another gaggle of kernel threads for all the
time the system is up?
It might be better to create a custom kernel thread on-demand, or kill off
the workqueue when its job has completed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-10 21:29 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 [this message]
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 ` [PATCH] [2.6.0-test3] request_firmware related problems Alan Cox
2003-08-10 22:15 Manuel Estrada Sainz
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