Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] libata: use single threaded work queue | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:22:25 +1000 |
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On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 14:23 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > Well, that's the same thread pool suggestion that Jeff came up with. > And > I agree, that's a nicer long term solution (it's also how the per-bdi > flushing replacement works). The problem with that appears to be that > any suggested patchset for thread pools spiral into certain "but what > color should it be?!" death. > > I'll try and work up a simple create_threadpool() implementation, we > can > literally cut away hundreds of threads with that.
Don't we have one already ? Dave Howells slow_work or such ?
Ben.
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