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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2010-09-10 16:51:36 +0200
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2010-09-13 10:26:52 +0200
commitc54fce6eff197d9c57c97afbf6c9722ce434fc8f (patch)
treec40c9bf65638399b13c47688f20e761cdd0fa89c /kernel/workqueue.c
parent84e1d836ef0759a152578a961894824bde89596f (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>
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diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
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--- 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>