Re: Overview of concurrency managed workqueue

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On 06/15/2010 08:40 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Tejun Heo wrote:
> 
>> == Benefits
>>
>> * Less to worry about causing deadlocks around execution resources.
>>
>> * Far fewer number of kthreads.
>>
>> * More flexibility without runtime overhead.
>>
>> * As concurrency is no longer a problem, workloads which needed
>>   separate mechanisms can now use generic workqueue instead.  This
>>   easy access to concurrency also allows stuff which wasn't worth
>>   implementing a dedicated mechanism for but still needed flexible
>>   concurrency.
> 
> Start the whole with the above? Otherwise people get tired of reading
> before finding out what the point of the exercise is?

Yeah, maybe that would have been better.  I was going for a nice
closing but who cares about closing if the opening is boring.  I'll
reorder on the next round.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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