Subject: Re: soc zfs: taskqueue / workqueue
To: None <thorpej@shagadelic.org, dillo@danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at,>
From: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/10/2007 09:56:47
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 04:34:06PM -0400, Oliver Gould wrote:
> 
> I think the general idea (as I have inferred) is that we don't want the lkm
> load operation to take as long zfs_start() may take, so it is thusly
> offloaded to a worker thread.  Is it worth 'wasting' a kthread on this
> one task?  Are there any other options?
> 

I think we may be getting taskqueue in the future, so for the sake of
expediency you could just use a kthread and comment it to be converted
to a taskqueue later.

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Brett Lymn