From: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: bryan.wu@analog.com, Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>,
Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl>,
linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
linux-joystick@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH try #3] Input/Joystick Driver: add support AD7142 joystick driver
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:27:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071015182743.GA2529@Ahmed> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d120d5000710150848t1993b0aavbbc0cd7971e3ef3e@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 11:48:17AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi Bryan,
>
> On 10/15/07, Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> wrote:
> > +
> > +static int ad7142_thread(void *nothing)
> > +{
> > + do {
> > + wait_for_completion(&ad7142_completion);
> > + ad7142_decode();
> > + enable_irq(CONFIG_BFIN_JOYSTICK_IRQ_PFX);
> > + } while (!kthread_should_stop());
> > +
>
> No, this is not going to work well:
> - you at least need to reinitialize the completion before enabling
> IRQ, otherwise you will spin in a very tight loop
> - if noone would touch the joystick ad7142_clsoe would() block
> infinitely because noone would signal the completion and
> ad7142_thread() would never stop.
>
> Completion is just not a good abstraction here... Please use work
> abstraction and possibly a separate workqueue.
>
Bryan, I'm very interested in the technical advantage of using a completion
here.
In my _not-experienced_ opinion, I remember completions was created mainly for
"create_task, wait till task got finished, go on" case. Why using it in a
different context while workqueues was created for a similar situation to
ad7142 one (non-irq context bottom-half) ?
Regards,
--
Ahmed S. Darwish
HomePage: http://darwish.07.googlepages.com
Blog: http://darwish-07.blogspot.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-15 18:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-15 14:47 [PATCH try #3] Input/Joystick Driver: add support AD7142 joystick driver Bryan Wu
2007-10-15 15:48 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-10-15 17:24 ` Bryan Wu
2007-10-15 17:40 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-10-16 5:51 ` Bryan Wu
2007-10-16 16:53 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-10-15 18:27 ` Ahmed S. Darwish [this message]
2007-10-16 6:08 ` Bryan Wu
2007-10-16 16:40 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2007-10-15 19:35 ` Jean Delvare
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