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| author | David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> | 2009-04-03 16:42:35 +0100 |
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| committer | David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> | 2009-04-03 16:42:35 +0100 |
| commit | 07fe7cb7c7c179f473fd9c823348fd3eb5dad369 (patch) | |
| tree | 516c959de929a4c39870629e550b3307601fa73f /kernel/Makefile | |
| parent | 8fe74cf053de7ad2124a894996f84fa890a81093 (diff) | |
Create a dynamically sized pool of threads for doing very slow work items
Create a dynamically sized pool of threads for doing very slow work items, such
as invoking mkdir() or rmdir() - things that may take a long time and may
sleep, holding mutexes/semaphores and hogging a thread, and are thus unsuitable
for workqueues.
The number of threads is always at least a settable minimum, but more are
started when there's more work to do, up to a limit. Because of the nature of
the load, it's not suitable for a 1-thread-per-CPU type pool. A system with
one CPU may well want several threads.
This is used by FS-Cache to do slow caching operations in the background, such
as looking up, creating or deleting cache objects.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/Makefile')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/Makefile | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile index e4791b3ba55..bab1dffe37e 100644 --- a/kernel/Makefile +++ b/kernel/Makefile @@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT) += dma-coherent.o obj-$(CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER) += trace/ obj-$(CONFIG_TRACING) += trace/ obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += sched_cpupri.o +obj-$(CONFIG_SLOW_WORK) += slow-work.o ifneq ($(CONFIG_SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER),y) # According to Alan Modra <alan@linuxcare.com.au>, the -fno-omit-frame-pointer is |