Re: Fix up riscom8 driver to use work queues instead of task queueing.

[Jeff Garzik]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> pdflush could kinda-sorta be converted to use workqueues, but it doesn't
> want a thread per cpu.


That was another item in the recent thread about workqueues:  other 
kernel code is very suited to the workqueue API, but only needs one 
thread, not a thread per cpu.  Would be nice to have a JUST_ONE_THREAD 
flag to pass to create_workqueue().

I bet adding such a flag would help alleviate some of the "I have 1001 
kthreads on my 16-way" complaints ;-)

	Jeff



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