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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 14:11:27 -0400
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kthread_work: wake up worker only when the worker is idle
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On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 12:03:59PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> If the worker task is not idle, it may sleep on some conditions by the request
> of the work.  Our unfriendly wakeup in the insert_kthread_work() may confuse
> the worker.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>

Applied to wq/for-3.17.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun