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
next 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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