Re: [PATCH 5/7] gfs2: use workqueue instead of slow-work

[Tejun Heo]

On 07/23/2010 12:20 PM, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 22:35 +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Workqueue can now handle high concurrency.  Convert gfs to use
>> workqueue instead of slow-work.
>>
>> * Steven pointed out that recovery path might be run from allocation
>>   path and thus requires forward progress guarantee without memory
>>   allocation.  Create and use gfs_recovery_wq with rescuer.  Please
>>   note that forward progress wasn't guaranteed with slow-work.
>>
>> * Updated to use non-reentrant workqueue.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I'm assuming that you'll push this along with the workqueue changes?
> Probably easier than pushing it through my tree,

Yeah, I'll route this through the wq tree with all other workqueue
related changes.

Thank you.

-- 
tejun
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