Re: [PATCH] padata: add helper function for queue length

2016-10-12 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
Hi Steffen, On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 5:15 AM, Steffen Klassert wrote: > Why you want to have this? I'm working on some bufferbloat/queue code that could benefit from knowing how many items are currently in flight. The goal is to always keep padata busy, but never

Re: [PATCH] padata: add helper function for queue length

2016-10-12 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
Hi Steffen, On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 5:15 AM, Steffen Klassert wrote: > Why you want to have this? I'm working on some bufferbloat/queue code that could benefit from knowing how many items are currently in flight. The goal is to always keep padata busy, but never with more jobs than absolutely

Re: [PATCH] padata: add helper function for queue length

2016-10-06 Thread Steffen Klassert
On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 03:46:38AM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Since padata has a maximum number of inflight jobs, currently 1000, it's > very useful to know how many jobs are currently queued up. This adds a > simple helper function to expose this information. > > Signed-off-by: Jason A.

Re: [PATCH] padata: add helper function for queue length

2016-10-06 Thread Steffen Klassert
On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 03:46:38AM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Since padata has a maximum number of inflight jobs, currently 1000, it's > very useful to know how many jobs are currently queued up. This adds a > simple helper function to expose this information. > > Signed-off-by: Jason A.

[PATCH] padata: add helper function for queue length

2016-10-01 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
Since padata has a maximum number of inflight jobs, currently 1000, it's very useful to know how many jobs are currently queued up. This adds a simple helper function to expose this information. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld --- include/linux/padata.h | 2 ++

[PATCH] padata: add helper function for queue length

2016-10-01 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
Since padata has a maximum number of inflight jobs, currently 1000, it's very useful to know how many jobs are currently queued up. This adds a simple helper function to expose this information. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld --- include/linux/padata.h | 2 ++ kernel/padata.c| 16