Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Delayed interrupt work, thread pools

[Arjan van de Ven]

James Bottomley wrote:
> Easier to implement, yes.  Easier to program, unlikely, and coming with
> a large amount of overhead, definitely.
>
> > BTW, if something like this is implemented, I think that it should be a
> > replacement for softirqs and tasklets.
under the "better steal right (from other open source) than invent wrong" mantra:
it's worth looking at what glib does here; I've used their threadpools before and
it worked really well for me.... we could learn a lot from that

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