Re: workqueue thing

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Dec 22 2009 - 06:08:26 EST


On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 08:50 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> > 3) gets fragile at memory-pressure/reclaim
>
> Shared dynamic pool is going to be affected by memory pressure no
> matter how you implement it. cmwq tries to maintain stable level of
> workers and has forward progress guarantee. If you're gonna do shared
> pool, it can't get much better.

And here I'm questioning the very need for shared stuff, I don't see
any. That is, I'm not seeing it being worth the hassle.

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