From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 00:36:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 00:36:15 -0500 Received: from ffke-campus-gw.mipt.ru ([194.85.82.65]:61641 "EHLO www.2ka.mipt.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 00:36:09 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 08:36:02 +0300 From: Evgeniy Polyakov To: sekhar raja Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Doubt in Kernel Timers Message-Id: <20011127083602.0d19d985.johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> In-Reply-To: <20011126125517.27715.qmail@web14504.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20011126125517.27715.qmail@web14504.mail.yahoo.com> Reply-To: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru Organization: MIPT X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 04:55:17 -0800 (PST) sekhar raja wrote: > What do i mean is with out Doing add_timer() can we > use del_timer(). george anzinger is right, you may del_timer() at any time. If the timer was actually queued, del_timer() returns 0, otherwise, it returns 1. But you should use del_timer_sync() to be sure, that your timer function is not currentky running on other CPU. > Thanks in Advance > -Rajasekhar --- WBR. //s0mbre