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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fix up riscom8 driver to use work queues instead of task queueing.
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 12:36:26 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308181234500.5929-100000@home.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030818192529.GC19067@gtf.org>


On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> There was talk in another thread about fixing up workqueue to create
> a new kernel thread, if one isn't available within five seconds.

That's probably reasonable. Together with some upper limit to active
threads, along with timeouting old queues when idle it would be fairly
flexible. It's how basically all servers end up working, after all. It 
shouldn't be that hard to do.

		Linus


  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-18 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200308181806.h7II6K6D014918@hera.kernel.org>
2003-08-18 18:09 ` Fix up riscom8 driver to use work queues instead of task queueing Jeff Garzik
2003-08-18 18:21   ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-18 18:28     ` Russell King
2003-08-18 18:47       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-18 18:59         ` Russell King
2003-08-18 19:10           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-18 18:44     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-18 19:12       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-18 19:25         ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-18 19:36           ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2003-08-18 20:32             ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-18 21:24               ` Jeff Garzik

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