linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH, RFC] reimplement flush

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Date:	Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:09:36 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] reimplement flush_workqueue()



On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> Remove ->remove_sequence, ->insert_sequence, and ->work_done from
> struct cpu_workqueue_struct. To implement flush_workqueue() we can
> queue a barrier work on each CPU and wait for its completition.

Looks fine to me. It's after -rc1 so I won't apply it, but it looks like a 
nice cleanup.

		Linus
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