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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] generic work queue handling, workqueue-2.5.39-D6
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:08:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D98A113.8010502@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44.0209301747560.13521-100000@localhost.localdomain

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> the attached patch (against BK-curr) cleans up the impact of the removal
> of task-queue support. It merges kernel/context.c (keventd) and the old
> task-queue concept into a unified 'work queue' concept. The basic
> primitives are:
> 
>  extern workqueue_t *create_workqueue(const char *name);
>  extern void destroy_workqueue(workqueue_t *wq);
>  extern int queue_work(work_t *work, workqueue_t *wq);
>  extern void flush_workqueue(workqueue_t *wq);
> 
> there is one 'default' workqueue, the events queue, which is analogous to
> the old keventd code, with very similar semantics:
> 
>  extern int schedule_work(work_t *work);
>  extern void flush_scheduled_work(void);


Two things:
* queue_work has its arguments reversed
* you need to add queue_work_delayed


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-30 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-30 16:04 [patch] generic work queue handling, workqueue-2.5.39-D6 Ingo Molnar
2002-09-30 17:45 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-09-30 18:20   ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-30 19:08 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-09-30 19:27 ` Chris Wedgwood

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