Subject: Re: soc zfs: taskqueue / workqueue
To: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
From: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/10/2007 14:09:47
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 01:57:23PM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 12:08:08PM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote:
> > I think a small number of general-purpose queues that run [in]
> > particular [..] circumstances would be a great idea
> 
> As well as the instance examples from freebsd, we've talked before
> about per-cpu workqueues each with a cpu-bound lwp processing jobs
> from it, for running things like est frequency changes.
> 

Yes, this sounds like the right way to go long term but we need to be
wary that we don't bog Oliver down with things that are not
progressing his Summer of Code task.

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Brett Lymn