Re: [PATCH] make cancel_rearming_delayed_work() reliable

Jarek Poplawski
2007-05-16T05:15:32Z

On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 02:08:12AM +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 05/15, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> >
> > I've overheared somebody is talking about my favorite 2-nd bit!
...
> We already discussed this... Surely, we can do this. I believe
> this will complicate (and _imho_ uglify) the code too much.

Yes, but now I see you are about to change your mind about
this bit...

> May be I am wrong. Please provide a detailed description?

I'll try too look more at your solution - maybe it's "not
so bad". I've probably exaggerated yesterday about this
overhead of setting the VALID bit.

Cheers,
Jarek P.