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

From: Satyam Sharma
Date: Sun May 06 2007 - 06:12:07 EST


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.

Satyam
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