On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Tree transversals could be kept happy with a rwsem. > The rest is really rare. And where it is not rare, I am not convinced > that uncontrolled paralellism is a good idea. IMHO you would soon > block on higher order allocations for hotplug anyway. Maybe you'd > even need rate limiting for hotplug outcalls. > I am suspecting overengineering here.
Maybe uncontrolled parallelism is bad, but no parallelism at all may be worse. For desktop users the difference might not be particularly noticeable. But I can just imagine the screams on LKML when people using Linux on mainframes like the IBM S/390 discover that dozens or hundreds of attached devices have to be discovered and probed one at a time. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
