[PATCH 5/7] gfs2: use workqueue instead of slow-work

Steven Whitehouse swhiteho at redhat.com
Fri Jul 23 03:20:57 PDT 2010


Hi,

On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 22:35 +0200, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Workqueue can now handle high concurrency.  Convert gfs to use
> workqueue instead of slow-work.
> 
> * Steven pointed out that recovery path might be run from allocation
>   path and thus requires forward progress guarantee without memory
>   allocation.  Create and use gfs_recovery_wq with rescuer.  Please
>   note that forward progress wasn't guaranteed with slow-work.
> 
> * Updated to use non-reentrant workqueue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho at redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho at redhat.com>

I'm assuming that you'll push this along with the workqueue changes?
Probably easier than pushing it through my tree,

Steve.




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