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From: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	jarkao2@o2.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: workqueue flush_work() patches
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:07:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48652C7F.1000904@qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080627175633.GA842@tv-sign.ru>

Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 06/27, Max Krasnyansky wrote:
>> I'm not sure if you guys saw my last email on this. So I'll restart the 
>> thread.
>> If you guys are ok with the summary I provided below I can put all 
>> Oleg's patches into some git tree, test them on my boxes and resend to 
>> Andrew.
> 
> I'll re-send these flush_work() patches to Andrew on Sunday,
Excellent. Feel free to include
Acked-By: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>

>> I was also going to go over the users of flush_queued_work() and 
>> convert them to cancel_work_sync() and/or flush_work().
> 
> I think this would be very nice in any case.
> 
> but I don't think flush_work() will find a lot of users...
Well, you've already found one (schedule_on_each_cpu()) there will 
probably be more. But I agree that flush is mostly used in cleanup 
procedures and therefor most users just need cancel_work_sync().

Max

      reply	other threads:[~2008-06-27 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-27 17:40 workqueue flush_work() patches Max Krasnyansky
2008-06-27 17:56 ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-06-27 18:07   ` Max Krasnyansky [this message]

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