linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] floppy: convert to delayed work and single-thread wq

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Date:	Wed, 16 May 2012 13:42:36 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] floppy: convert to delayed work and single-thread wq

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Ummm... still confused.  flush_work_sync() is fine too.  If you have
> two, two calls to flush_work_sync() are equivalent to flushing the
> workqueue in effect.  You just need to avoid flush_workqueue() because
> system workqueues may be hosting work items which can run arbitrarily
> long.

Umm. If there are abritrarily long things and these are serialized,
then that workqueue is not good for putting floppy work on it either,
is it? I don't think you can have it both ways.

Either it's "good enough" for putting floppy_work, fd_timeout and
fd_timer on, or it's not. If it's good enough, then flush_workqueue()
should damn well be timely enough. And if flush_workqueue() isn't
timely enough, then it doesn't sound like system_nrt_wq is the wrong
choice.

                      Linus
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