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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] workqueue: remove the first check and the return value of maybe_create_worker()
On 07/11/2014 11:03 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:01:03AM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
>> @@ -1887,17 +1887,11 @@ static void pool_mayday_timeout(unsigned long __pool)
>> * spin_lock_irq(pool->lock) which may be released and regrabbed
>> * multiple times. Does GFP_KERNEL allocations. Called only from
>> * manager.
>> - *
>> - * Return:
>> - * %false if no action was taken and pool->lock stayed locked, %true
>> - * otherwise.
>> */
>> -static bool maybe_create_worker(struct worker_pool *pool)
>> +static void maybe_create_worker(struct worker_pool *pool)
>
> We probably should drop "maybe_" from the function name?
>

We already have create_worker(). And maybe_create_worker() does not always create worker.
maybe_create_worker() may not create worker if the condition is changed after
it fails at the first time,


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