From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] floppy: convert to delayed work and single-thread wq
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 13:29:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120516202924.GE21275@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1205162216390.8796@pobox.suse.cz>
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:24:37PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> In floppy_grab_irq_and_dma() the point is to drain the workqueue
> completely (before the conversion, we were just using
> flush_work_sync(&floppy_work) for particular work item), and for that
> flush_work() is not sufficient any more.
>
> So I am really considering going back to driver-specific singlethreaded
> workqueue.
Ummm... still confused. flush_work_sync() is fine too. If you have
two, two calls to flush_work_sync() are equivalent to flushing the
workqueue in effect. You just need to avoid flush_workqueue() because
system workqueues may be hosting work items which can run arbitrarily
long.
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-16 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-16 7:36 [PATCH] floppy: convert to delayed work and single-thread wq Jiri Kosina
2012-05-16 14:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-05-16 15:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-16 17:01 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-16 19:37 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-05-16 19:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-16 19:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-16 19:51 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-05-16 19:53 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-16 19:57 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-05-16 20:01 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-16 20:24 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-05-16 20:29 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2012-05-16 20:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-17 14:55 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-17 15:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-17 15:06 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-05-17 15:09 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-17 15:46 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-05-17 16:02 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-16 20:44 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-05-17 15:06 ` Tejun Heo
2012-05-17 7:56 ` Jiri Kosina
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