Re: [PATCHSET] async: reimplement synchronization

[Tejun Heo]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 04:39:23PM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Synchronization in async got messy as more features were added and
> while being converted to workqueue.  It currently has a global list of
> pending async items and per-domain running lists.  Per-domain sync has
> to search through the global pending list and global sync has to
> iterate over all active registered domains.
> 
> This patchset reimplements async synchronization such that async items
> stay on two pending lists - global and per-domain - the whole time
> till completion, which simplifies both execution and synchronization.
> There's no need to moving around items on execution and both domain
> and global sync can look at the head of the list to determine the
> lowest cookie in flight.

Applied to wq/for-3.9-async.  Thanks.

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tejun
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