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From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
To: Juergen Quade <quade@hsnr.de>
Cc: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, nagendra_tomar@adaptec.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tasklet_kill will always hang for recursive tasklets on a UP
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 23:22:41 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030828232240.F1212@almesberger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030828161722.GA4384@hsnr.de>; from quade@hsnr.de on Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 06:17:22PM +0200

Juergen Quade wrote:
> useful, I still believe, it is a bug. Does anybody know, who is
> responsible for the function?

If it's not Alexey himself, I'm sure he knows who is :-)

> > > 2. we should find some means to make it usable for recursive tasklets.
> > 
> > I would not say it is easy. When tasklet is enqueued on another cpu you
> > have no way to stop it unless you are in process context, where you can
> > sit and wait for completion.
> 
> For sure, not easy.
> But tasklet_kill will mostly be called in process context, won't it?

Ah, a misunderstanding. You meant "can be used to kill 'recursive'
tasklets" (with "recursive" = re-schedules itself). Apparently,
Alexey understood "can be used from a tasklet".

The latter would basically mean to busy loop for the other tasklet
to be scheduled, run, and complete. Not nice.

- Werner

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-29  2:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-25  0:00 tasklet_kill will always hang for recursive tasklets on a UP Nagendra Singh Tomar
2003-08-25  1:53 ` Nagendra Singh Tomar
2003-08-25 14:11 ` Juergen Quade
2003-08-25 17:14   ` Nagendra Singh Tomar
2003-08-27 18:21     ` Juergen Quade
2003-08-27 17:46       ` Nagendra Singh Tomar
2003-08-28 15:29         ` Juergen Quade
2003-08-28 15:53           ` kuznet
2003-08-28 16:17             ` Juergen Quade
2003-08-29  2:22               ` Werner Almesberger [this message]
2003-08-26  5:48 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-25 18:45   ` Nagendra Singh Tomar
2003-08-26  7:38     ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-26  8:32       ` Juergen Quade
2003-08-26 17:56         ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-27  1:47           ` kuznet
2003-08-26 16:17             ` Nagendra Singh Tomar
2003-08-28 13:17               ` kuznet
2003-08-28 16:25                 ` Nagendra Singh Tomar
2003-09-04 13:25                   ` kuznet
2003-08-29  2:30             ` Werner Almesberger

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