Re: [RFC][PATCH] create workqueue threads only when needed

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Sun Feb 01 2009 - 16:42:11 EST



> I don't know, most of those I've looked on are not documented about the reason
> for a private workqueue. I guess most of them can use the usual kevent.

The main problem with kevent is that it gets clogged up.

That's were thread pools kick in ... tried using Dave Howells slow
work ?

Cheers,
Ben.


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