On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:24:00 +0000 David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > umm, if they're slow, why not create a kernel thread per operation? > > Why add the thread pool? > > Because if someone does a tar of, say, a kernel tree, that'll create one > thread per file... OK. > This provides a limiter - and makes sure there are threads > immediately available. Those two objectives seem incompatible. What does a caller do when the limit has been hit? Do the work synchronously? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
