Hi Vimal, On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Vimal <j.vimal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Arun, > >> Have a look here, >> http://lwn.net/Articles/211279/ > > Thanks a lot for the link. However, I am still confused how one would > go about doing something like this using workqueues: > > performance critical path: (this is like a producer) > queue(work on a *particular data* D) > > worker thread: (this is like a consumer of queued work) > while(1) { > wait for work+data D on queue > perform work on data D > remove data D from queue > } > > It is unclear how to do the above using workqueues. Are there some > examples for this new API? I think what you're asking is how do you have your own private data? If so, then what you're supposed to do is to create your own structure which contains a struct work struct and then use container_of inside your function. So something like this: struct my_work_struct { struct work_struct work; int my data here; .... }; struct my_work_struct my_work ... put whatever you want in my_work... schedule_work( &my_work ); and then inside the function: void my_func( struct work_struct *ws ) { struct my_work_struct *my_ws = container_of( ws, struct my_work_struct, work ); ... access your data from my_ws ... } -- Dave Hylands Shuswap, BC, Canada http://www.DaveHylands.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
