From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>,
Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Subject: Re: [patch] smptimers, old BH removal, tq-cleanup, 2.5.39
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:48:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D975901.9000207@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44.0209292117200.25393-100000@localhost.localdomain
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> yes, wrt. keventd i was thinking along the same line - but in a different,
> perhaps cleaner and simpler direction.
>
> i'd like to introduce the following interfaces:
>
> - create_work_queue(wq, handler_fn)
what is handler_fn for, if you pass work_fn later?
> - destroy_work_queue(wq)
>
> - queue_work(wq, work_fn, work_data)
queue_work_delayed(wq, work_fn, work_data, delay) would be nice too
> - flush_work_queue(wq)
>
> this is an extension of the keventd concept. A work queue is a simplified
> interface to create a kernel thread that gets work queued from IRQ and
> process contexts. No more, no less.
Your proposal sounds good to me...
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-29 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-29 17:52 [patch] smptimers, old BH removal, tq-cleanup, 2.5.39 Ingo Molnar
2002-09-29 18:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-29 18:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-29 19:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-29 19:48 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-09-29 18:54 ` Dave Jones
2002-09-29 19:15 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-09-30 0:20 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-30 4:33 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-09-30 4:28 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-30 4:38 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-09-30 12:55 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-30 14:50 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-09-29 19:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-30 0:39 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-30 6:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-30 21:45 ` george anzinger
2002-10-01 3:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-01 4:18 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-01 5:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-01 8:00 ` george anzinger
2002-10-01 5:33 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-03 7:10 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-09-30 23:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-30 16:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-30 23:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-30 17:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-01 0:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
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