linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] WorkStruct: Separate delayable and non-delayable events.

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Date:	Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:43:01 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, torvalds@...l.org,
	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] WorkStruct: Separate delayable and non-delayable events. 

Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> wrote:

> A consequent (if somewhat silly) name for queue_delayed_work would be
> queue_delayed_dwork, since it requires a struct dwork_struct.

Yeah...  Sometimes I wish C has type-based function overloading like C++ does.

> Are there many or frequent usages of "undelayed delayable work" like
> above, where runtime decides if a delay is necessary? If not,
> queue_dwork could be removed from the API and queue_(delayed_|d)work be
> called with delay=0.

There are a few, but not many.  Your suggestion is a good one, I think.
queue_delayed_work() can just devolve to queue_work() if delay == 0.

David
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