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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2010-07-02 10:03:51 +0200
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2010-07-02 11:00:02 +0200
commitf34217977d717385a3e9fd7018ac39fade3964c0 (patch)
tree7e05645e911eea15b33a368b91ac82ae12884e6d /mm/Kconfig
parentbdbc5dd7de5d07d6c9d3536e598956165a031d4c (diff)
downloadlinux-f34217977d717385a3e9fd7018ac39fade3964c0.tar.bz2
workqueue: implement unbound workqueue
This patch implements unbound workqueue which can be specified with WQ_UNBOUND flag on creation. An unbound workqueue has the following properties. * It uses a dedicated gcwq with a pseudo CPU number WORK_CPU_UNBOUND. This gcwq is always online and disassociated. * Workers are not bound to any CPU and not concurrency managed. Works are dispatched to workers as soon as possible and the only applied limitation is @max_active. IOW, all unbound workqeueues are implicitly high priority. Unbound workqueues can be used as simple execution context provider. Contexts unbound to any cpu are served as soon as possible. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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