From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] generic work queue handling, workqueue-2.5.39-D6
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 23:15:37 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020930231537.A29582@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209301747560.13521-100000@localhost.localdomain>; from mingo@elte.hu on Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 03:58:25PM +0000
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 03:58:25PM +0000, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> it cannot get any simpler than this. Work-queues are SMP-safe and
> guarantee serialization of actual work performed.
>
Ingo,
Is it possible that queue_task() handlers in earlier driver code may have
depended on implicit serialization against corresponding timer handlers since
each of those is run from BHs ? If so, isn't that an issue now with
no BHs ? Or, is it safe to assume that general smp-safety code in the
drivers will take care of serialization between timers and work-queues ?
Thanks
--
Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> http://lse.sourceforge.net
Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Lab, Bangalore, India.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-30 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-30 16:04 [patch] generic work queue handling, workqueue-2.5.39-D6 Ingo Molnar
2002-09-30 17:45 ` Dipankar Sarma [this message]
2002-09-30 18:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-30 19:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-30 19:27 ` Chris Wedgwood
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