Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Aug 2003 12:12:19 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Fix up riscom8 driver to use work queues instead of task queueing. |
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On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > schedule_work() is _not_ for that. As currently implemented, you have > no guarantees that your schedule_work()-initiated work will even > begin in this century.
In theory yes. In practice no. schedule_work() tries to wake up the worker process immediately, and as such usually gets the work done asap.
But hey, if you want to improve on the drivers, please go wild. I care more about "real life working" than "theoretical but doesn't work".
Linus
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