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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Alex Naidis <alex.naidis@linux.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] workqueue: Implement delayed_work_busy()
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 16:01:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170524200141.GM24798@htj.duckdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACuw83r65iSCQdV1WVR=wQqw0voJ_98HmsRF9XaAdeGtQ_daGQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hello, Alex.

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 09:58:19PM +0200, Alex Naidis wrote:
> Yeah, I agree, it is wrong to rely on work_busy() providing correct data.
> However sometimes it is useful to have an indicator like this to at least
> catch some cases where requeuing work would be obsolete.
> This applies for delayed work too.

Can you elaborage on "requeueing work would be obsolate" a bit?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-05-24 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-23 23:34 Alex Naidis
2017-05-24 15:11 ` Tejun Heo
     [not found]   ` <CACuw83r65iSCQdV1WVR=wQqw0voJ_98HmsRF9XaAdeGtQ_daGQ@mail.gmail.com>
2017-05-24 20:01     ` Fwd: " Alex Naidis
2017-05-24 20:01     ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2017-05-24 20:16       ` Alex Naidis
2017-05-24 20:21         ` Tejun Heo
2017-05-24 20:32           ` Alex Naidis

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