From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: mixxel@cs.auc.dk, Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: workqueue and pending
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 14:41:26 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1083645686.20091.301.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040503211540.052848a1.akpm@osdl.org>
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 14:15, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> >
> > It's probably still good to precise explicitely in the comments
> > that upon return of cancel_delayed_work(), the work queue might
> > still be pending and that a flush and whoever called this may
> > still need a flush_scheduled_work() or flush_workqueue() (provided
> > it's running in a context where that can sleep)
>
> That function was originally written by a comment fetishist.
Heh, I should have looked at the code =P
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-04 4:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-03 11:39 workqueue and pending Mikkel Christiansen
2004-05-03 23:27 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-04 2:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-04 3:16 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-04 3:55 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-04 4:15 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-04 4:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-05-04 13:36 ` Mikkel Christiansen
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