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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/workqueue.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c index 5f8ee91abdf..29b79852a84 100644 --- a/kernel/workqueue.c +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -16,9 +16,10 @@ * * 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. + * automatically managed. There are two worker pools for each CPU (one for + * normal work items and the other for high priority ones) and some extra + * pools for workqueues which are not bound to any specific CPU - the + * number of these backing pools is dynamic. * * Please read Documentation/workqueue.txt for details. */ @@ -2033,8 +2034,11 @@ static bool maybe_destroy_workers(struct worker_pool *pool) * multiple times. Does GFP_KERNEL allocations. * * RETURNS: - * spin_lock_irq(pool->lock) which may be released and regrabbed - * multiple times. Does GFP_KERNEL allocations. + * %false if the pool don't need management and the caller can safely start + * processing works, %true indicates that the function released pool->lock + * and reacquired it to perform some management function and that the + * conditions that the caller verified while holding the lock before + * calling the function might no longer be true. */ static bool manage_workers(struct worker *worker) { |