What are worker threads and work items?
–Sachin
There is a pool of threads in the system, that can be used to perform
asynchronous work for the drivers and the system. A work item is a request
block that gets queued to indicate that there is a procedure to be called by
a thread in the pool.
–
Don Burn (MVP, Windows DDK)
Windows 2k/XP/2k3 Filesystem and Driver Consulting
“Sachin” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
> What are worker threads and work items?
> --Sachin
>
The semantics is - “please execute this routine on PASSIVE_LEVEL in System
process context a bit later but as fast as possible”.
The OS has a pool of the threads in the System process to implement this
semantics.
Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
xxxxx@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com
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From: “Sachin”
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Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 4:33 PM
Subject: [ntdev] Worker threads
> What are worker threads and work items?
> --Sachin
>
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> Questions? First check the Kernel Driver FAQ at
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