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| author |   Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-09-21 13:55:04 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-09-21 13:55:11 +0200 |
| commit | 7ed569206ebe7467b9c912b857ec46cf1c361111 (patch) | |
| tree | c3e0b92cc782439c33ae844e2520819a29700897 /kernel/workqueue.c | |
| parent | perf: Undo the per cpu-context timer stuff (diff) | |
| parent | Linux 2.6.36-rc5 (diff) | |
Merge commit 'v2.6.36-rc5' into perf/core
Merge reason: Pick up the latest fixes in -rc5.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/workqueue.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/workqueue.c | 27 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c index 727f24e563ae..f77afd939229 100644 --- a/kernel/workqueue.c +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -1,19 +1,26 @@ /* - * linux/kernel/workqueue.c + * kernel/workqueue.c - generic async execution with shared worker pool * - * Generic mechanism for defining kernel helper threads for running - * arbitrary tasks in process context. + * Copyright (C) 2002 Ingo Molnar * - * Started by Ingo Molnar, Copyright (C) 2002 + * Derived from the taskqueue/keventd code by: + * David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> + * Andrew Morton + * Kai Petzke <wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de> + * Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> * - * Derived from the taskqueue/keventd code by: + * Made to use alloc_percpu by Christoph Lameter. * - * David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> - * Andrew Morton - * Kai Petzke <wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de> - * Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> + * Copyright (C) 2010 SUSE Linux Products GmbH + * Copyright (C) 2010 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> * - * Made to use alloc_percpu by Christoph Lameter. + * This is the generic async execution mechanism. Work items as are + * executed in process context. The worker pool is shared and + * automatically managed. There is one worker pool for each CPU and + * one extra for works which are better served by workers which are + * not bound to any specific CPU. + * + * Please read Documentation/workqueue.txt for details. */ #include <linux/module.h> |