From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753847AbZBARsr (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Feb 2009 12:48:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753622AbZBARsW (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Feb 2009 12:48:22 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:49843 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752925AbZBARsT (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Feb 2009 12:48:19 -0500 Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 09:47:27 -0800 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Stefan Richter Cc: Frederic Weisbecker , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Lai Jiangshan , Peter Zijlstra , Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] create workqueue threads only when needed Message-ID: <20090201094727.4615305c@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <4985DE82.5030208@s5r6.in-berlin.de> References: <20090127001708.GA4815@nowhere> <20090126163015.7f879b18@infradead.org> <20090131180347.GC5884@nowhere> <20090131101502.7ce8e7af@infradead.org> <20090131182843.GD5884@nowhere> <4985CC57.7090800@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20090201090429.0c7e1362@infradead.org> <4985DE82.5030208@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.5; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:40:18 +0100 Stefan Richter wrote: > I'm not quite sure yet but I believe I can run the work in the current > context if there was an allocation failure, provided those failures > are unlikely. > > Hmm. I don't see the "async/mgr" in the process list of that > 2.6.29-rc3 box next to me. Under which circumstances is this > facility available (long after boot)? Or am I just barging into a > discussion to /make/ it available after boot? for 2.6.29 only it was turned off by default, for 2.6.30 it will be on by default. -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org