From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
To: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Cc: Vicente Feito <vicente.feito@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: workqueue - process context
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 17:52:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42176EC4.8080700@keyaccess.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52acq0ttdg.fsf@topspin.com>
Roland Dreier wrote:
> Rene> I have no idea about the module refcounting stuff. Is there
> Rene> a chance that create_workqueue() could increase a reference
> Rene> somewhere so that the module wouldn't be allowed to unload
> Rene> untill after a destroy_workqueue()?
>
> There's no point to doing this, since it's adding complexity to try
> and avoid a very obvious and easy to find bug. Other types of
> resource leaks are harder to find, but a module not destroying a
> workqueue is going to be trivial to spot and fix.
Yes, fair enough. Thank you.
Rene.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-19 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-19 1:48 workqueue - process context Vicente Feito
2005-02-19 4:57 ` Roland Dreier
2005-02-19 2:02 ` Vicente Feito
2005-02-19 5:03 ` Roland Dreier
2005-02-19 14:31 ` Rene Herman
2005-02-19 16:19 ` Roland Dreier
2005-02-19 16:52 ` Rene Herman [this message]
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2005-02-19 2:38 Vicente Feito
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