Re: [PATCH] workqueue: doc: Call out the non-reentrance conditions

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed Oct 20 2021 - 12:18:25 EST


On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 01:40:21PM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> * A work item instance will not be processed by multiple workers at the
> same time, i.e. it's non-reentrant, so requeuing the same instance of
> a work item is safe and not racy. Operations considered as changing
> the work item to a different instance are: 1) change the work
> function, 2) queue the work item to a different workqueue, or 3)
> reinitiate the work item. The non-reentrance guarantee doesn't hold
> for different work item instances.

Yeah, I prefer it to be described this way but it's not a strong opinion.
Looks good to me either way.

Thanks.

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tejun