linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] task_work_queue: add generic process-context callbacks

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Date:	Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:11:52 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...hat.com>,
	Chris Zankel <chris@...kel.net>,
	David Smith <dsmith@...hat.com>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Larry Woodman <lwoodman@...hat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] task_work_queue: add generic process-context
 callbacks

On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 01:15 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > hm, I see.  The "queue" in "task_work_queue" is "the action of
> > queueing", not "a queue".  Noun-vs-verb.
> 
> Cough. Peter, do you read this? I stole the naming and the first
> line of the changelog from kernel/irq_work.c! 

Am now.. right, so that was modeled after queue_work(), although I now
realize I reversed the words and made it irq_work_queue() instead of
queue_irq_work().

I'd prefer to keep the queue thing as per workqueue and irq_work etc..
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