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

[Ingo Molnar]

* Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu,  1 Oct 2009 17:09:18 +0900 Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > To solve the above issues, this patch implements concurrency-managed
> > workqueue.
> 
> Seems reasonable.
> 
> This approach would appear to rule out the option of setting a work 
> thread's state (scheduling policy, scheduling priority, uid, etc) to 
> anything other than some default.
> 
> I guess that's unlikely to be a problem if we haven't yet had a need 
> to do that, but I'd be a bit surprised to discover that nobody has 
> done that sort of thing yet?  Nobody has niced up their workqueue 
> threads?

tuna in -rt might do that perhaps?

	Ingo
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