From c8e55f360210c1bc49bea5d62bc3939b7ee13483 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:07:12 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] workqueue: implement worker states Implement worker states. After created, a worker is STARTED. While a worker isn't processing a work, it's IDLE and chained on gcwq->idle_list. While processing a work, a worker is BUSY and chained on gcwq->busy_hash. Also, gcwq now counts the number of all workers and idle ones. worker_thread() is restructured to reflect state transitions. cwq->more_work is removed and waking up a worker makes it check for events. A worker is killed by setting DIE flag while it's IDLE and waking it up. This gives gcwq better visibility of what's going on and allows it to find out whether a work is executing quickly which is necessary to have multiple workers processing the same cwq. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo --- Reading git-format-patch failed