From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>,
Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>,
Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] Notifier chain update
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 23:07:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1137625653.1760.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060118214204.GG16285@kvack.org>
On Mer, 2006-01-18 at 16:42 -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> A notifier callee should not be sleeping, if anything it should be putting
> its work onto a workqueue and completing it when it gets scheduled if it
> has to do something that blocks.
Notifiers impose sequential ordering and the ability to abort or
complete a sequence early. Workqueues do something different.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-18 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-18 16:34 [PATCH 1/8] Notifier chain update Alan Stern
2006-01-18 18:19 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-01-18 20:23 ` Alan Stern
2006-01-18 21:42 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-01-18 21:57 ` Alan Stern
2006-01-18 22:00 ` David S. Miller
2006-01-18 22:04 ` Alan Stern
2006-01-18 23:06 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-19 3:33 ` Alan Stern
2006-01-18 22:01 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-01-18 22:09 ` Alan Stern
2006-01-18 22:15 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-01-19 10:01 ` Jes Sorensen
2006-01-18 22:18 ` David S. Miller
2006-01-18 22:18 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-01-18 23:07 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-01-19 9:55 ` Jes Sorensen
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