Re: [PATCH] kthread_work: wake up worker only when the worker is idle

On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 12:03:59PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote: > If the worker task is not idle, it may sleep on some conditions by the request > of the work. Our unfriendly wakeup in the insert_kthread_work() may confuse > the worker. > > Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan Applied to wq/for-3.17. T

[PATCH] kthread_work: wake up worker only when the worker is idle

If the worker task is not idle, it may sleep on some conditions by the request of the work. Our unfriendly wakeup in the insert_kthread_work() may confuse the worker. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan --- kernel/kthread.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/kern