Re: Delayed interrupt work, thread pools

[Dave Chinner]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 12:38:52PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 20:39 -0500, Dean Nelson wrote:
> > As Robin, mentioned XPC manages a pool of kthreads that can (for performance
> > reasons) be quickly awakened by an interrupt handler and that are able to
> > block for indefinite periods of time.
> > 
> > In drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_main.c you'll find a rather simplistic attempt
> > at maintaining this pool of kthreads. 
.....
> > I'd love it if a general mechanism were provided so that XPC could get out
> > of maintaining its own pool.
> 
> Thanks. That makes one existing in-tree user and a one likely WIP user,
> probably enough to move forward :-)

FWIW, the NFS server has a fairly sophisicated thread pool
implementation that allows interesting control of pool
affinity. Look up struct svc_pool in your local tree ;)

Cheers,

Dave.
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