/* once a worker has this many requests or fewer, it is idle */
int idle_thresh;
- /* list with all the work threads */
+ /* list with all the work threads. The workers on the idle thread
+ * may be actively servicing jobs, but they haven't yet hit the
+ * idle thresh limit above.
+ */
struct list_head worker_list;
struct list_head idle_list;
/* lock for finding the next worker thread to queue on */
spinlock_t lock;
- /* extra name for this worker */
+ /* extra name for this worker, used for current->name */
char *name;
};