Re: [PATCH] flush_work_sync vs. flush_scheduled_work Re: [PATCH]PHYLIB: IRQ event workqueue handling fixes

From: Maciej W. Rozycki
Date: Thu Oct 18 2007 - 11:59:35 EST


On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> If we can't just cancel the work, can't we do something like
>
> if (cancel_work_sync(w))
> w->func(w);
>
> instead?

We do an equivalent of this -- all that we care about that w->func(w)
would do is enable_irq() and the rest we want to skip at this point. We
probably do not need the counter in the end though.

Maciej
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