Re: [PATCH] mfd: add workqueue thread into 88pm860x

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Sun Mar 13 2011 - 01:39:00 EST


On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 11:43:13PM +0800, Haojian Zhuang wrote:
> Create workqueue thread in 88pm860x driver since 88pm860x driver
> needs to handle event in workqueue.
>
> Avoid to use system workqueue since i2c operation cost a lot of
> time. It would impact system performance.

No, not anymore - the concurrency managed workqueues implemented by
Tejun allow scheduling longer-running jobs on the system workqueue
without impacting other users.

Thanks.

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Dmitry
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