Re: [patch] generic work queue handling, workqueue-2.5.39-D6

[Jeff Garzik]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> the attached patch (against BK-curr) cleans up the impact of the removal
> of task-queue support. It merges kernel/context.c (keventd) and the old
> task-queue concept into a unified 'work queue' concept. The basic
> primitives are:
> 
>  extern workqueue_t *create_workqueue(const char *name);
>  extern void destroy_workqueue(workqueue_t *wq);
>  extern int queue_work(work_t *work, workqueue_t *wq);
>  extern void flush_workqueue(workqueue_t *wq);
> 
> there is one 'default' workqueue, the events queue, which is analogous to
> the old keventd code, with very similar semantics:
> 
>  extern int schedule_work(work_t *work);
>  extern void flush_scheduled_work(void);

Two things:
* queue_work has its arguments reversed
* you need to add queue_work_delayed