From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dst@ioremap.net,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [4/7] dst: thread pool.
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:10:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090118161041.40608174@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090114215810.674569fc.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:58:10 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > Thread pool is used for crypto processing of incoming and outgoing
> > IO requests to reduce the overall overhead.
>
> This is at least our fourth thread pool implementation, not counting
> kernel/workqueue.c:
>
> 1: pdflush
I will look at moving pdflush to async function calls.. sounds like a
good "get over jetlag" project
>
> 2: David Howells' "slow work" infrastructure
this one is *weird*. The infrastructure deals with object refcounting
somehow.
>
> 4: Your "dst thread pool"
from the context... I wouldn't be surprised if this can just use async
function calls as well... it's simple enough on first sight.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-19 0:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-13 23:05 [0/7] Distributed storage for drivers/staging merge request Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 23:05 ` [1/7] dst: core files Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 23:05 ` [2/7] dst: network state machine Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 23:05 ` [3/7] dst: export node Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 23:05 ` [4/7] dst: thread pool Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 23:05 ` [5/7] dst: transactions Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 23:05 ` [6/7] dst: crypto processing Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 23:05 ` [7/7] dst: kconfig and makefile changes Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 23:09 ` [8/7] dst: kconfig update Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-14 2:22 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-01-14 9:09 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-14 2:22 ` [7/7] dst: kconfig and makefile changes Randy Dunlap
2009-01-14 14:46 ` [4/7] dst: thread pool Frederik Deweerdt
2009-01-14 15:01 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-15 5:58 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-15 8:47 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-19 0:10 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2009-01-19 17:07 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-02-05 13:55 ` David Howells
2009-01-14 14:52 ` [3/7] dst: export node Jens Axboe
2009-01-14 15:11 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 23:39 ` [0/7] Distributed storage for drivers/staging merge request Greg KH
2009-01-13 23:47 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-14 0:01 ` Greg KH
2009-01-14 0:08 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-14 0:12 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-14 0:15 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-14 0:20 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-14 0:23 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-14 0:24 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-14 9:39 ` Jeff Garzik
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-12-26 11:56 [0/7] Distributed storage release Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-26 11:56 ` [1/7] dst: core files Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-26 11:56 ` [2/7] dst: network state machine Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-26 11:56 ` [3/7] dst: export node Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-26 11:56 ` [4/7] dst: thread pool Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-17 13:53 [0/7] dst: new release introduction Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-17 13:53 ` [1/7] dst: core files Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-17 13:53 ` [2/7] dst: network state machine Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-17 13:53 ` [3/7] dst: export node Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-17 13:53 ` [4/7] dst: thread pool Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-17 15:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-12-17 20:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-12-17 23:32 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-18 0:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-12-18 8:10 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-18 9:44 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-12-17 23:39 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
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