Make slow-work thread pool actually dynamic

Make the slow-work thread pool actually dynamic in the number of threads it
contains.  With this patch, it will both create additional threads when it has
extra work to do, and cull excess threads that aren't doing anything.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
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David Howells 2009-04-03 16:42:35 +01:00
commit 109d9272c4