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SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/12] workqueue: add WORKER_RESCUER
On 09/27/2012 02:07 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 01:20:32AM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
>> rescuer thread must be a worker which is WORKER_NOT_RUNNING:
>> If it is *not* WORKER_NOT_RUNNING, it will increase the nr_running
>> and it disables the normal workers wrongly.
>>
>> So rescuer thread must be WORKER_NOT_RUNNING.
>>
>> Currently code implement it by always setting WORKER_PREP on rescuer thread,
>> but this kind of implement is ugly:
>> A) It reuses WORKER_PREP which is used for a different meaning.
>> B) It does not told us rescuer thread is WORKER_NOT_RUNNING.
>>
>> So we add WORKER_RESCUER to fix these two sematic.
>
> Ah, right, we always have WORKER_PREP set for rescuers. So, this
> doesn't actually change the behavior at all?

No, this doesn't change the behavior at all.

> I'm not necessarily
> against it but the commit message seems a bit misleading.
>

I just try my best to say" we need to add WORKER_RESCUER to told us
rescuer is WORKER_NOT_RUNNING explicity, using WORKER_PREP only will
hide this info"

Thanks,
Lai



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