On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 20:49:46 +0100 Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > and this > > > is just another variant that except for the sequence stuff > > > isn't all that much different. So it would be better to have > > > a generic worker thread manager that just supports these > > > barriers too. > > > > ... or maybe think about seeing this system as exactly that thread > > manager? > > I'm not sure it's generic enough. There's appreciable overlap with David Howells's "slow work" thread pool thingy. If either of those was generic enough, the other would go away. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
