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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add unschedule_delayed_work to the workqueue API
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:25:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041018142524.5b81a09a.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1098117067.2011.64.camel@mulgrave>

James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> wrote:
>
> I'm in the process of moving some of our scsi timers which do more work
> than just a few lines of code into schedule_work() instead.  The problem
> is that the workqueue API lacks the equivalent of del_timer_sync(). 

The usual way of doing this is:

	cancel_delayed_work(...);
	flush_workqueue(...);



  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-18 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-18 16:31 [PATCH] add unschedule_delayed_work to the workqueue API James Bottomley
2004-10-18 21:25 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-10-18 21:26   ` James Bottomley
2004-10-18 21:29     ` James Bottomley
2004-10-18 21:43       ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-18 21:47         ` James Bottomley
2004-10-18 22:02           ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-18 22:15             ` James Bottomley
2004-10-18 22:57               ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-18 23:24                 ` James Bottomley

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