Re: [RFC][PATCH 03/10] workqueue: It is likely thatWORKER_NOT_RUNNING is true

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 10:49 +0100, Tejun Heo wrote:

> > The wq_worker_sleeping() is called from schedule when a worker thread
> > is putting itself to sleep. Which happens most of the time outside
> > of that [ do work stuff ].
> 
> Yeah, I was lost thinking about the busiest case where workers are
> busy processing works consecutively.  Usually workers are of course
> switching in and out of idle state all the time.
> 
> How about just dropping likely/unlikely?

I have no problem in dropping them too. I'll do that in my next version.

Thanks,

-- Steve


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