On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jun 2014, Austin Schuh wrote: >> I think I might have an answer for my own question, but I would >> appreciate someone else to double check. If list_empty erroneously >> returns that there is work to do when there isn't work to do, we wake >> up an extra worker which then goes back to sleep. Not a big loss. If >> list_empty erroneously returns that there isn't work to do when there >> is, this should only be because someone is modifying the work list. >> When they finish, as far as I can tell, all callers then check to see >> if a worker needs to be started up, and start one. > > Precisely.
A comment there when you put together a polished patch for inclusion would be awesome. I'm assuming that you will put the patch together? -- 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/
