On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:40 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 01:15:08AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: >> > This just needs to go away. ?It's just a bad emulation of >> > Solaris/Windows style dynamically allocated timer lists, that just make >> > life harder for anyone trying to use it. >> >> Yeah, started hacking at it [1], but it can all just be converted to >> delayed work. > > Currently it's plain timers, converting it to a delayed work and thus > moving it to process context seems like a non-trivial conversions. > > Does it buy you anything? > Not much beyond the defined semantics of cancel_delayed_work and delayed_work_pending. I was looking to eliminate the current open coded equivalent functionality. I also want to get rid of the pre-allocation, which I assume was the reason for the original comment? But that can be accomplished without going all the way to delayed_work. -- Dan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
