On 08-12-15, 15:30, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > It doesn't look nice, but then having a lockless timer function is worth > it in my view. > > The code in gov_cancel_work() runs relatively rarely, but the timer > function can run very often, so avoiding the lock in there is a priority > to me. > > Plus we can avoid disabling interrupts in two places this way.
Okay, that's good enough then. I hope you will be sending these patches now, right? And ofcourse, we need documentation in this case as well. -- viresh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
