Re: [PATCH 19/19] workqueue: implement concurrency managed workqueue

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Oct 01 2009 - 20:42:57 EST


Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Currently each workqueue has its own dedicated worker pool. This
> causes the following problems.

I definitely like the basic idea (without having read all the code so
far). Thanks for doing that work. On large systems the number of
kernel threads around can be mind boggling, and it will also get rid
of bizarreness like the ps2mouse thread.

I wonder have you ever thought about exposing this to user space too?
It can face similar problems for parallelization.

-Andi

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