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Message-ID: <ZK3VEPeBEyErmerR@slm.duckdns.org>
Date:   Tue, 11 Jul 2023 12:17:52 -1000
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@...gle.com>
Cc:     rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@...il.com>,
        Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>,
        Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>,
        Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@...ton.me>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, patches@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] rust: workqueue: add bindings for the workqueue

Hello,

On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 09:32:54AM +0000, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> This patchset contains Rust bindings for the kernel workqueue.
> 
> One of the primary goals behind the design used in this patch is that we
> must support embedding the `work_struct` as a field in user-provided
> types, because this allows you to submit things to the workqueue without
> having to allocate, making the submission infallible. If we didn't have
> to support this, then the patch would be much simpler. One of the main
> things that make it complicated is that we must ensure that the function
> pointer in the `work_struct` is compatible with the struct it is
> contained within.
> 
> The original version of the workqueue bindings was written by Wedson,
> but I have rewritten much of it so that it uses the pin-init
> infrastructure and can be used with containers other than `Arc`.

I don't understand a lot but the part that I understand (Alice helped me a
lot, thanks) and the example usages look fine to me. While the interface
leaves some workqueue features uncovered (e.g. flushing, creating custom
workqueues, queueing on a specific CPU), there's nothing blocking adding
them later and this looks like a good place to start. So, from workqueue
POV:

 Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>

Please feel free to route the patches through the rust tree. If you want
them to go through the workqueue tree, please let me know.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

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