From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752626Ab2DOLMW (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Apr 2012 07:12:22 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:43122 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751231Ab2DOLMI convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Apr 2012 07:12:08 -0400 Message-ID: <1334488312.28150.2.camel@twins> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] task_work_queue: add generic process-context callbacks From: Peter Zijlstra To: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Andrew Morton , David Howells , Linus Torvalds , Thomas Gleixner , Alexander Gordeev , Chris Zankel , David Smith , "Frank Ch. Eigler" , Geert Uytterhoeven , Larry Woodman , Tejun Heo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:11:52 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20120412231520.GA1656@redhat.com> References: <20120412211146.GA30448@redhat.com> <20120412211208.GA30456@redhat.com> <20120412152246.2eb4211b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20120412231520.GA1656@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2- Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 01:15 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > hm, I see. The "queue" in "task_work_queue" is "the action of > > queueing", not "a queue". Noun-vs-verb. > > Cough. Peter, do you read this? I stole the naming and the first > line of the changelog from kernel/irq_work.c! Am now.. right, so that was modeled after queue_work(), although I now realize I reversed the words and made it irq_work_queue() instead of queue_irq_work(). I'd prefer to keep the queue thing as per workqueue and irq_work etc..