On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 04:35:23PM +0200, Saeed Mahameed wrote: > think of a case where: > CPU1: is just about to call > "schedule_delayed_work(&tstamp->overflow_work, > tstamp->overflow_period);" > CPU2: cancel_delayed_work > > In this case cancel_dalyed_work_sync (CPU2) will wait for CPU1 to > complete but CPU1 will re-arm the work, and we will > be left with tstamp->overflow_work running forever.
This is my understanding: Once the work becomes re-queued, it will be canceled before running again. Thanks, Richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
