Hello, On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 03:35:45PM -0600, Kanigeri, Hari wrote: > This was changed to dedicated work queue because of performance issues > when there is heavy mailbox traffic between the cores. > > Reference: > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg24240.html Using dedicated workqueue or system_wq doesn't make any difference in terms of execution latency anymore. Sleeping work items no longer delay execution of other work items. If mailbox is very latency sensitive, it might make sense to create a HIGHPRI workqueue but that usually isn't necessary. Thank you. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html