From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dhylands@gmail.com (Dave Hylands) Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:59:48 -0700 Subject: work_struct not getting scheduled In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org Hi Pankaj, On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Pankaj B wrote: > Hi, > At my end I was using tasklets to do some handling. But while > doing the handling the handler had to sleep, so I had to switch to > ?workqueues. I am scheduling a work as follows: > INIT_WORK(&event->work, do_handling_work); > schedule_work(&event->work); > flush_scheduled_work(); > But the work never gets scheduled. I have put some printks in the > do_handling_work() function. Creating workqueue and queueing > the work to that workqueue doen't work either. I find this a > very strange problem. Does anybody knows about this? > FYI: my system has heavy IO load when I schedule the work. Which version of linux are you using? -- Dave Hylands Shuswap, BC, Canada http://www.davehylands.com