Re: [PATCH] relay: use plain timer instead of delayed work

From: Tom Zanussi
Date: Sun May 06 2007 - 23:56:01 EST


On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 15:40 +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> On 5/6/07, Tom Zanussi <zanussi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > [...]
> > relay doesn't need to use schedule_delayed_work() for waking readers
> > when a simple timer will do.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > [...]
> > diff --git a/include/linux/relay.h b/include/linux/relay.h
> > index 759a0f9..cac0732 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/relay.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/relay.h
> > @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ struct rchan_buf
> > size_t subbufs_consumed; /* count of sub-buffers consumed */
> > struct rchan *chan; /* associated channel */
> > wait_queue_head_t read_wait; /* reader wait queue */
> > - struct delayed_work wake_readers; /* reader wake-up work struct */
> > + struct timer_list timer; /* reader wake-up timer */
> > struct dentry *dentry; /* channel file dentry */
> > struct kref kref; /* channel buffer refcount */
> > struct page **page_array; /* array of current buffer pages */
>
> I suspect you could now safely get rid of the "#include
> <linux/wait.h>" at the top of relay.h too. And although timer.h comes
> via #include <linux/sched.h>, you might want to do that explicitly
> too.
>

Hi Satyam,

Thanks for your comments - I've updated the patch to include timer.h but
wait.h would still be needed for wait_queue_head_t, so will leave that
in.

Tom



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