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authorLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>2013-02-06 18:04:53 -0800
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2013-02-06 18:04:53 -0800
commit60c057bca22285efefbba033624763a778f243bf (patch)
tree8e469c390b5b60ad6b4d7c94bc07522f857032bc /include/linux/workqueue.h
parent038366c5cf23ae737b9f72169dd8ade2d105755b (diff)
workqueue: add delayed_work->wq to simplify reentrancy handling
To avoid executing the same work item from multiple CPUs concurrently, a work_struct records the last pool it was on in its ->data so that, on the next queueing, the pool can be queried to determine whether the work item is still executing or not. A delayed_work goes through timer before actually being queued on the target workqueue and the timer needs to know the target workqueue and CPU. This is currently achieved by modifying delayed_work->work.data such that it points to the cwq which points to the target workqueue and the last CPU the work item was on. __queue_delayed_work() extracts the last CPU from delayed_work->work.data and then combines it with the target workqueue to create new work.data. The only thing this rather ugly hack achieves is encoding the target workqueue into delayed_work->work.data without using a separate field, which could be a trade off one can make; unfortunately, this entangles work->data management between regular workqueue and delayed_work code by setting cwq pointer before the work item is actually queued and becomes a hindrance for further improvements of work->data handling. This can be easily made sane by adding a target workqueue field to delayed_work. While delayed_work is used widely in the kernel and this does make it a bit larger (<5%), I think this is the right trade-off especially given the prospect of much saner handling of work->data which currently involves quite tricky memory barrier dancing, and don't expect to see any measureable effect. Add delayed_work->wq and drop the delayed_work->work.data overloading. tj: Rewrote the description. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/workqueue.h b/include/linux/workqueue.h
index 426c39c2aaa4..a3d7556510c3 100644
--- a/include/linux/workqueue.h
+++ b/include/linux/workqueue.h
@@ -109,6 +109,9 @@ struct work_struct {
struct delayed_work {
struct work_struct work;
struct timer_list timer;
+
+ /* target workqueue and CPU ->timer uses to queue ->work */
+ struct workqueue_struct *wq;
int cpu;
};