On 07/27, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>
> Hence those two debatable changes:
>
> _ We would like to use generic workqueues. System unbound workqueues are
>   a very good candidate but they are not wide affine, only node affine.
>   Now probably a node is enough to perform many parallel kmod jobs.
>
> _ We would like to remove the wait_for_helper kernel thread (UMH_WAIT_PROC
>   handler) to use the workqueue. It means that if the workqueue blocks,
>   and no other worker can take pending kmod request, we can be screwed.
>   Now if we have 512 threads, this should be enough.

I think this series is fine. Feel free to add my reviewed-by.

Oleg.

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