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/*
* Copyright (C) 2007 Oracle. All rights reserved.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
* License v2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
* License along with this program; if not, write to the
* Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
* Boston, MA 021110-1307, USA.
*/
#ifndef __BTRFS_ASYNC_THREAD_
#define __BTRFS_ASYNC_THREAD_
struct btrfs_worker_thread;
/*
* This is similar to a workqueue, but it is meant to spread the operations
* across all available cpus instead of just the CPU that was used to
* queue the work. There is also some batching introduced to try and
* cut down on context switches.
*
* By default threads are added on demand up to 2 * the number of cpus.
* Changing struct btrfs_workers->max_workers is one way to prevent
* demand creation of kthreads.
*
* the basic model of these worker threads is to embed a btrfs_work
* structure in your own data struct, and use container_of in a
* work function to get back to your data struct.
*/
struct btrfs_work {
/*
* only func should be set to the function you want called
* your work struct is passed as the only arg
*/
void (*func)(struct btrfs_work *work);
/*
* flags should be set to zero. It is used to make sure the
* struct is only inserted once into the list.
*/
unsigned long flags;
/* don't touch these */
struct btrfs_worker_thread *worker;
struct list_head list;
};
struct btrfs_workers {
/* current number of running workers */
int num_workers;
/* max number of workers allowed. changed by btrfs_start_workers */
int max_workers;
/* once a worker has this many requests or fewer, it is idle */
int idle_thresh;
/* list with all the work threads */
struct list_head worker_list;
struct list_head idle_list;
/* lock for finding the next worker thread to queue on */
spinlock_t lock;
};
int btrfs_queue_worker(struct btrfs_workers *workers, struct btrfs_work *work);
int btrfs_start_workers(struct btrfs_workers *workers, int num_workers);
int btrfs_stop_workers(struct btrfs_workers *workers);
void btrfs_init_workers(struct btrfs_workers *workers, int max);
int btrfs_requeue_work(struct btrfs_work *work);
#endif
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