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

Tejun Heo tj at kernel.org
Thu Jul 22 13:45:02 PDT 2010


On 07/20/2010 10:35 PM, 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>

Steven, can you please review the change?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun


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