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From: Mikkel Christiansen <mixxel@cs.auc.dk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: workqueue and pending
Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 13:39:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40962F75.8000200@cs.auc.dk> (raw)

Hi

We're trying to use the workqueue interface for scheduling a delayed 
gargage collector.
Since we only need a single delayed thread we used the DECLEARE_WORK macro.

The problem is that once we call cancel_delayed_work we can't schedule 
work again.

Having looked at the code i noticed that cancel_delayed_work only 
deletes the timer but
doesn't set clear the "pending" bit, thus any call to 
schedule_delayed_work is ignorred.

Example:

static DECLARE_WORK(tft, timeoutfun, NULL)
.
.
.
schedule_delayed_work(&tft, 1*HZ);
cancel_delayed_work(&tft);

<do some work>

tft.pending = 0;   / / if we dont clear pending no work can be scheduled
schedule_delayed_work(&tft, 1*HZ);
return 0;

End example

Setting tft.pending is a rather ugly solution - shouldn't it be cleared by
cancel_delayed_work?, or are we using the interface in the wrong way?

Cheers
    Mikkel



             reply	other threads:[~2004-05-03 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-03 11:39 Mikkel Christiansen [this message]
2004-05-03 23:27 ` workqueue and pending Andrew Morton
2004-05-04  2:51   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-04  3:16     ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-04  3:55       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-04  4:15         ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-04  4:41           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-04 13:36       ` Mikkel Christiansen

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