On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> I might have been too early with the 'easy' part but I definitely can
> give it a shot. What do you think about the scheduler notifier
> implementation? It seems we'll end up with three callbacks. It can
> either be three hlist_heads in the struct_tas
Hello,
11/17/2009 09:05 PM, Andy Walls wrote:
>> Implementing strict ordering
>> shouldn't be too difficult but I can't help but feeling that such
>> assumption is abuse of implementation detail.
>
> Hmmm, does not the "queue" in workqueue mean "FIFO"?
I don't think it necessarily means strict
Hello, Linus.
11/18/2009 12:05 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> Do you think that usage is wide-spread? Implementing strict ordering
>> shouldn't be too difficult but I can't help but feeling that such
>> assumption is abuse of implementation detail.
>
> I think it would be good if it were more than
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> Do you think that usage is wide-spread? Implementing strict ordering
> shouldn't be too difficult but I can't help but feeling that such
> assumption is abuse of implementation detail.
I think it would be good if it were more than an implementation deta
On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 14:23 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 11/17/2009 09:47 AM, Andy Walls wrote:
> > An important property of the single threaded workqueue, upon which the
> > cx18 driver relies, is that work objects will be processed strictly in
> > the order in which they were queued. Th
Hello,
11/17/2009 09:47 AM, Andy Walls wrote:
> An important property of the single threaded workqueue, upon which the
> cx18 driver relies, is that work objects will be processed strictly in
> the order in which they were queued. The cx18 driver has a pool of
> "work orders" and multiple active
On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 02:15 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> SINGLE_THREAD workqueues are used to reduce the number of worker
> threads and ease synchronization. The first reason will be irrelevant
> with concurrency managed workqueue implementation. Simplify
> SINGLE_THREAD implementation by creating t
