linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] make cancel_rearming_delayed

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Date:	Wed, 16 May 2007 07:21:59 +0200
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...pl>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Chinner <dgc@....com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Gautham Shenoy <ego@...ibm.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make cancel_rearming_delayed_work() reliable

On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 02:08:12AM +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 05/15, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> > 
> > I've overheared somebody is talking about my favorite 2-nd bit!
...
> We already discussed this... Surely, we can do this. I believe
> this will complicate (and _imho_ uglify) the code too much.

Yes, but now I see you are about to change your mind about
this bit...

> May be I am wrong. Please provide a detailed description?

I'll try too look more at your solution - maybe it's "not
so bad". I've probably exaggerated yesterday about this
overhead of setting the VALID bit.

Cheers,
Jarek P.
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