Re: Overview of concurrency managed workqueue

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sat Jun 19 2010 - 05:28:07 EST


> Hmmm... yeah, adding it isn't hard. I'm just a bit skeptical how
> useful it would be. Having only single user would be a bit silly.

Why? If it's an important user...

> Can you think of anything else which could benefit from high priority
> queueing?

Over time we'll get more error handling, e.g. advanced NMI handling.
Maybe it could be useful for thermal handling too which is a similar
situation.

To be honest I would prefer if there aren't that many more users,
the more users the less useful it becomes.

-Andi
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