Re: [PATCH 4/7] workqueue: single pass rebind_workers

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Aug 27 2012 - 15:04:27 EST


Hello, Lai.

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 01:58:24AM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> busy_worker_rebind_fn() can't return until all idle workers are rebound,
> the code of busy_worker_rebind_fn() ensure this.
>
> So we can change the order of the code of rebind_workers(),
> and make it a single pass do the rebind_workers().
>
> It makes the code much clean and better readability.

I can't see how this could be correct. What prevents busy worker from
grabbing manager_mutex before idle one?

Thanks.

--
tejun
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