linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] workqueue: Separate out drain_workqueue() from destroy

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Message-ID: <20110405160709.GA12015@mtj.dyndns.org>
Date:	Tue, 5 Apr 2011 09:07:09 -0700
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] workqueue: Separate out drain_workqueue() from
 destroy_workqueue()

On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 07:47:01AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> > James, does this seem to fit your use cases?
> 
> Perfectly, thanks.  It makes sure we have eliminated all work the
> workqueues generated before we return.  This is needed in some of the
> SCSI waits where we want all discovery to complete, not just the piece
> the WQ started.

Cool, applied to wq#for-2.6.40 with minor printk adjustments.  Please
feel free to pull into SCSI if necessary.  It's a stable branch and
currently contains only the single commit.

 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git for-2.6.40

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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