Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/8] Notifier chain update | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Date | Wed, 18 Jan 2006 23:07:33 +0000 |
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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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