* Arun R B <[email protected]> [2010-10-21 17:40:45]: > From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <[email protected]> > > This patch creates a generic asynchronous-task-offloading infrastructure named > threadlets. The core idea has been borrowed from the threading framework that > is being used by paio. > > The reason for creating this generic infrastructure is so that other > subsystems, > such as virtio-9p could make use of it for offloading tasks that could block. > > The patch creates a global queue on-to which subsystems can queue their tasks > to > be executed asynchronously. > > The patch also provides API's that allow a subsystem to create a private queue > with an associated pool of threads. > > [[email protected]: Facelift of the code, Documentation, cancel_threadlet > and other helpers] > > Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Sripathi Kodi <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <[email protected]> -- Three Cheers, Balbir
