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| author | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2010-09-10 16:51:36 +0200 |
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| committer | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2010-09-13 10:26:52 +0200 |
| commit | c54fce6eff197d9c57c97afbf6c9722ce434fc8f (patch) | |
| tree | c40c9bf65638399b13c47688f20e761cdd0fa89c /kernel/workqueue.c | |
| parent | 84e1d836ef0759a152578a961894824bde89596f (diff) | |
workqueue: add documentation
Update copyright notice and add Documentation/workqueue.txt.
Randy Dunlap, Dave Chinner: misc fixes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-By: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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> |