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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: Thu, 17 May 2012 08:09:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120517150923.GH21275@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1205171705520.8796@pobox.suse.cz>

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 05:06:41PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2012, Tejun Heo wrote:
> 
> > > Umm. If there are abritrarily long things and these are serialized,
> > > then that workqueue is not good for putting floppy work on it either,
> > > is it? I don't think you can have it both ways.
> > 
> > They're not being serialized.  
> 
> Then it's useless for this very purpose -- the sole purpose of the 
> floppy_wq having as a single-threaded wq is to run all the work 
> serialized.
> 
> So the patch I have sent out this morning is the way to go.

Yeah, that seems to be my confusion here - I thought serialization is
necessary only for a work item.  Can you please use
alloc_ordered_workqueue() instead of create_singlethread_workqueue()?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-17 15:09 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
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 [this message]
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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