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From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: How to completely disable async fastboot?
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:45:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E8CE66.8050709@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090415183137.4d19a7c8@infradead.org>

On 4/16/2009 3:31 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:20:32 -0400
> Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
>> > commit 9710794383ee5008d67f1a6613a4717bf6de47bc
...
>> not only changes a default, it completely removes the ability to turn 
>> off async AFAICS.
> 
> this is on the request of Andrew and others who want to be able to use
> these API's (soon) in an "forced offload" scenario. 

Indeed, because the async API is a threadpool API.
However, 2.6.30-rc1 also gained David Howell's <linux/slow-work.h>, and
I for one am still wondering which one of these I'm going to use...
-- 
Stefan Richter
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-17 18:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-16  0:20 Jeff Garzik
2009-04-16  1:31 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-04-16  1:48   ` [PATCH] " Jeff Garzik
2009-04-17 18:45   ` Stefan Richter [this message]

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