Re: introduce delayed-leds.h to reduce code duplication

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Sun, 08 Mar 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Tue 2009-01-20 10:04:00, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > On Mon 2009-01-12 08:05:01, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > > What about something like this? 
> > > > > 
> > > > > [Alternatively, I can add a flag to the leds class, and make delayed
> > > > > leds a built-in functionality...]
> > > > > 
> > > > > [Attached is driver that uses new infrastructure for hp_accel, but it
> > > > > does a bit more.]
> > > > 
> > > > FWIW, I am looking over the thinkpad-acpi side of this.  I like the idea,
> > > > but I am not completely sure I agree fully with the changes to
> > > > thinkpad-acpi.
> > > > 
> > > > Which isn't a problem, as long as the thinkpad-acpi hunks are NOT merged to
> > > > any tree before my ACK, please.  I will test and comment on the patch before
> > > > the weekend.
> > > 
> > > Any news?
> > 
> > Sure.  Sorry for not replying earlier.
> > 
> > I don't like the loss of functionality of the private workqueue.  I kicked
> > the thinkpad led handling to a private workqueue in order to never tie up
> > the system-wide one with crap spinning around in the ACPI layer, etc.  In
> > fact, all thinkpad-acpi deferred work is in the private workqueue for this
> > reason.
> 
> Is the private workqueue really required? AFAICT workqueues are not
> exactly cheap, and leds are not toggled that often. Was it problem in
> practice?

Well, the day we can trust the main workqueue not to block or delay
important stuff, I will use it.  Until then, I feel it is best to have
thinkpad-acpi work scheduled independently from the important stuff.

The private workqueue is NOT used just for the LEDs, it is used for
every thinkpad-acpi deferred-work needs.  And I'd rather the thinkpad-acpi
LED work didn't move to the main workqueue.

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