Re: [PATCH 34/35] async: use workqueue for worker pool

[Tejun Heo]

Hello, Arjan.

On 06/29/2010 06:40 PM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> uh? clearly the assumption is that if I have a 16 CPU machine, and 12
> items of work get scheduled,
> that we get all 12 running in parallel. All the smarts of cmwq surely
> only kick in once you've reached the
> "one work item per cpu" threshold ???

Hmmm... workqueue workers are bound to certain cpu, so if you schedule
a work on a specific CPU, it will run there.  Once a cpu gets
saturated, the issuing thread will be moved elsewhere.  I don't think
it matters to any of the current async users one way or the other,
would it?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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