Hello, > * Swithced to using a workqueue. > Unfortunelly, I still see that workqueue items are executed in parallel > I suspect that this happens if one work item sleeps. In this case I > don't want other work items to run too. I fixed this with a mutex, and > anyway > it nice to have it to guaranteee this.
You can use alloc_ordered_workqueue("namefmt", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM). No mutex needed for inter-work exclusion. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/