Re: [PATCHSET] workqueue: concurrency managed workqueue, take#5

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:17:25 +0200
Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 06/14/2010 11:58 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:37:17 +0200
> > Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> >> This is the fifth take of cmwq (concurrency managed workqueue)
> >> patchset.
> > 
> > What is a concurrency managed workqueue and why do we want one?
> 
> That goes back about 9 month.  You were cc'd there too.  :-)
> 
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/896268
> 

Nobody's going to remember all that stuff except yourself, and the info
might be out of date.  So please update and maintain that information
and retain it with the patchset.

eg: "<NEED SOME BACKING NUMBERS>".  And "Please read the patch
description of the last patch for more details" is out of date.

Because right now I have a bunch of code in my inbox and little
(actually "no") idea why anyone might want to merge it into anything.

Trying to review a large patchset when you don't have an overall
picture of what it's trying to do and how it's trying to do it is
rather painful - you have to work all that stuff out from the
implementation.  It's also error-prone if the implementation doesn't
implement that which the author thinks it implements (ie: if it has
design bugs).

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