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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memstick: add support for legacy memorysticks
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:28:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120924182837.GI7694@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348511077.618.19.camel@maxim-laptop>

Hello,

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 08:24:37PM +0200, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> Should have looked through the source. Understand now.
> Just one quick question, should I create my own workqueue or use
> schedule_work? if I use the later and my work function sleeps, will it
> harmfully affect other users of this function?

If memstick can be in memory reclaim path (most block devices are),
you would want to create a dedicated workqueue w/ rescuer.  For
details, please read Documentation/workqueue.txt.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-24 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-19 13:19 Maxim Levitsky
2012-09-19 13:19 ` [PATCH] memstick: add support for legacy memorysticks Maxim Levitsky
2012-09-19 21:52   ` Andrew Morton
2012-09-20  4:05     ` Maxim Levitsky
2012-09-20 17:53       ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-24 14:59         ` Maxim Levitsky
2012-09-24 15:09           ` Maxim Levitsky
2012-09-24 18:05             ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-24 18:19               ` Maxim Levitsky
2012-09-24 18:24                 ` Maxim Levitsky
2012-09-24 18:28                   ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2012-09-24 18:25                 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-20 17:49     ` Tejun Heo
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-07-08 14:11 [merged] memstick-add-support-for-legacy-memorysticks.patch removed from -mm tree Maxim Levitsky
2013-07-08 20:54 ` Driver for memestick standard cards Maxim Levitsky
2013-07-08 20:54   ` [PATCH] memstick: add support for legacy memorysticks Maxim Levitsky
2013-07-11  0:28     ` Maxim Levitsky
2013-07-11 21:22       ` Andrew Morton
2013-07-17 20:35     ` Andrew Morton

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