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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:54:00 +0800 From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com> To: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz> Subject: Re: [PATCH wq#for-next] workqueue: Clarify that schedule_on_each_cpu is synchronous On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 05:18:46PM +0800, Tejun Heo wrote: > The documentation for schedule_on_each_cpu() states that it calls a > function on each online CPU from keventd. This can easily be > interpreted as an asyncronous call because the description does not > mention that flush_work is called. Clarify that it is synchronous. > > tj: rephrased a bit > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie> > Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com> > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> Nice comment! Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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