On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 14:23 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > Well, that's the same thread pool suggestion that Jeff came up with. > And > I agree, that's a nicer long term solution (it's also how the per-bdi > flushing replacement works). The problem with that appears to be that > any suggested patchset for thread pools spiral into certain "but what > color should it be?!" death. > > I'll try and work up a simple create_threadpool() implementation, we > can > literally cut away hundreds of threads with that. Don't we have one already ? Dave Howells slow_work or such ? Ben. -- 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