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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/8] Notifier chain update
FromAlan Cox <>
DateWed, 18 Jan 2006 23:07:33 +0000
On Mer, 2006-01-18 at 16:42 -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> A notifier callee should not be sleeping, if anything it should be putting
> its work onto a workqueue and completing it when it gets scheduled if it
> has to do something that blocks.

Notifiers impose sequential ordering and the ability to abort or
complete a sequence early. Workqueues do something different.

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