From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tj@kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Zqiang <qiang.zhang@windriver.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] kthread: do not modify running work
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 17:01:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200930150109.GK29288@alley> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200926040426.11936-1-hdanton@sina.com>
On Sat 2020-09-26 12:04:26, Hillf Danton wrote:
>
> It does not make much sense to rearm timer for the delayed work if
> it is worker's current work atm because it's good to do work only
> once.
Quite typical scenario is to queue delayed work from its own callback.
It allows to do the work in regular intervals.
This patch would break it. Or do I miss anything?
Best Regards,
Petr
next parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-30 15:01 UTC|newest]
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2020-09-30 15:01 ` Petr Mladek [this message]
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2020-10-01 13:59 ` [RFC PATCH] kthread: do not modify running work Thomas Gleixner
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2020-10-02 8:32 ` Thomas Gleixner
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2020-10-05 8:38 ` Petr Mladek
2020-10-05 11:16 ` Petr Mladek
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2020-10-05 12:20 ` Petr Mladek
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