In article <20001217140530.A14173@vger.timpanogas.org>,
Jeff V. Merkey <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org> wrote:
>
>Try thinking about the work to do model (since task queues are so similiar)
>Having to "kick" these things should be automatic in the kernel. I could
>do a lot of cool stuff with this in there, manos aside.....
No, the "kicking" should _not_ be automatic.
Th ewhol epoint of a lot of the task queues is that they are manual. The
main use for them (apart from the tty layer, which could easily use
something else) is the disk starter - where we want to delay the
submission of requests to the disk until we've aggregated as many as
possible. Which means that the "tq_disk" queue must absolutely not be
kicked automatically.
Linus
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