Re: [PATCH] flush_work_sync vs. flush_scheduled_work Re: [PATCH] PHYLIB: IRQ event workqueue handling fixes

Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-10-18T15:59:33Z

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> If we can't just cancel the work, can't we do something like
>
> if (cancel_work_sync(w))
> w->func(w);
>
> instead?

We do an equivalent of this -- all that we care about that w->func(w)
would do is enable_irq() and the rest we want to skip at this point. We
probably do not need the counter in the end though.

Maciej