Re: [PATCH 16/19] workqueue: reimplement workqueue flushing usingcolor coded works

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On 12/04/2009 08:46 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Hmm, a long while back I did a PI aware workqueue implementation, that
> used nested work-lists to implement barriers and flushing.
> 
> This colour thing seems very prone to starvation when you want to extend
> worklets with priority.

Can you elaborate how it would be prone to starvation?  I was assuming
flat-priority while designing and implementing this as that was the
current behavior and never really thought about priority.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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