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Re: nfs server lockup (again)



On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:59:17AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 04:23:59PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >
> > Also there is (from worqueue_enqueue(9)):
> > "The enqueued work will be processed in a thread context.  A work must not
> >  be enqueued again until the callback is called by the workqueue(9) frame-
> >  work."
> 
> This is bizarre.  Reading it, I note that I've written some buggy code
> assuming that workqueues were, you know, *queues* -- not
> queues-of-one-element.
> 
> I think it means that you cannot enqueue the _same_ struct work
> repeatedly, though.  Not a problem, in practice, if you embed one
> struct work in each instance of your other datastructure.  No?

Maybe, but in this case if would be in mbuf; it doesn't look doable ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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