[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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