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CorrectionCorrectionPosted Apr 22, 2004 16:41 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1)In reply to: Correction by proski Parent article: Driver porting: the workqueue interface. Actually, 2.4 had several task queues, most of which did not run in process context. The scheduler queue, in later 2.4 kernels, runs out of keventd, but it is a single, shared thread. Workqueues have multiple, per-CPU threads which are dedicated to the queue. (When Rusty's patch goes in, single-thread workqueues will also be possible, though each queue will still have its own thread). Workqueues also have nice features like a "flush" operation that can guarantee that your tasks are not running and will not run and a "delayed work" capability.
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