On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:02:31PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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>
> On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> >
> > How about using a sentinel list entry representing the current position
> > in run_task_queue's loop?
>
> Nope.
>
> There may be multiple concurrent run_task_queue's executing, so for now
> I've applied Andrew Morton's patch that most closely gets the old
> behaviour of having a private list.
>
> HOWEVER, this does need to be re-visited. The task-queue handling is
> potantially something that should be completely re-vamped in the future.
>
> Linus
Linus,
Try thinking about the work to do model (since task queues are so similiar)
Having to "kick" these things should be automatic in the kernel. I could
do a lot of cool stuff with this in there, manos aside.....
:-)
Jeff
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