| From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/45] Create a dynamically sized pool of threads for doing very slow work items [ver #41] | Date | Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:24:00 +0000 |
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Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> umm, if they're slow, why not create a kernel thread per operation? > Why add the thread pool?
Because if someone does a tar of, say, a kernel tree, that'll create one thread per file... This provides a limiter - and makes sure there are threads immediately available.
David
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