Re: Singlethread vs. freezable workqueues

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Hi,

On Monday, 21 May 2007 21:33, Alan Stern wrote:
> Raphael:
> 
> Are we now committed to making freezable workqueues always 
> singlethreaded?  Is it at all likely to change back?  Or should I 
> introduce a "create_singlethread_freezeable_workqueue" macro?

This was done as a quick fix of an issue with one driver that started to use
(broken) freezable workqueues when we were not watching. ;-)

We are going to have multithread freezable workqueues as well, but that'll
take some time.  We've discussed this a bit with Oleg and I believe he has an
idea of how it can be done cleanly.

Greetings,
Rafael
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