From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cancel_delayed_work: use del_timer() instead of del_timer_sync()
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:04:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23525.1177495443@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070424215034.GA5985@tv-sign.ru>
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> wrote:
> del_timer_sync() buys nothing for cancel_delayed_work(), but it is less
> efficient since it locks the timer unconditionally, and may wait for the
> completion of the delayed_work_timer_fn().
Okay, this patch seems to work for me, though I'm not using any of the other
related patches that are in the -mm tree (I modified this patch to compile
directly on top of Linus's vanilla tree).
Acked-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-25 10:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-24 21:50 [PATCH] cancel_delayed_work: use del_timer() instead of del_timer_sync() Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-25 10:04 ` David Howells [this message]
2007-04-25 13:02 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-04-25 12:52 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-26 14:29 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-04-26 15:29 ` Oleg Nesterov
2007-04-27 6:15 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-04-27 7:23 ` Oleg Nesterov
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