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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2009-11-19 18:10:53 +0000
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2009-11-19 18:10:53 +0000
commit31ba99d304494cb28fa8671ccc769c5543e1165d (patch)
treeea2d839fb70798cf6a3b55ccc87f749e14e14f1d /include/linux/stop_machine.h
parent8fba10a42d191de612e60e7009c8f0313f90a9b3 (diff)
SLOW_WORK: Allow the owner of a work item to determine if it is queued or not
Add a function (slow_work_is_queued()) to permit the owner of a work item to determine if the item is queued or not. The work item is counted as being queued if it is actually on the queue, not just if it is pending. If it is executing and pending, then it is not on the queue, but will rather be put back on the queue when execution finishes. This permits a caller to quickly work out if it may be able to put another, dependent work item on the queue behind it, or whether it will have to wait till that is finished. This can be used by CacheFiles to work out whether the creation a new object can be immediately deferred when it has to wait for an old object to be deleted, or whether a wait must take place. If a wait is necessary, then the slow-work thread can otherwise get blocked, preventing the deletion from taking place. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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