Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Those two objectives seem incompatible. What does a caller do when the > limit has been hit? Do the work synchronously? No. The work is queued for later processing by the pool. The piece of memory that records the pending work is much smaller than the memory required to hold a thread. The threads in the pool actually do the work. The submitter of the work gets on with its life - unless it has to be synchronous. David -- 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
