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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-09-16 12:50:31 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-09-16 12:50:31 -0700
commit94ca9d669a1308fefe476fde750c5297b6f86f3f (patch)
tree0e6ffa86be5d133669755929a1bf60a9bb170826 /kernel
parent2c35cd019fc4a0e29db8ef29afba9f91a3cd4d23 (diff)
parentc54fce6eff197d9c57c97afbf6c9722ce434fc8f (diff)
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: add documentation
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/workqueue.c27
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 727f24e563a..f77afd93922 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>