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On 02/02/2011 04:25 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> usually necessary.  The queue of pending works tend to be short and
> consumed pretty fast.
>

What if we want to do something that could take a while, like doing 
recovery of a device/transport (so you have to send resets and 
logouts/logins and wait for the results but they could take a while if 
they timeout), should we be using something other than a workqueue so it 
does not interfere with other users?