Re: tx_timeout and timer serialisation

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> But both ways are still wrong. We still need macro telling,
> when a self-destructable timer is running even if we need not
> any synchronization. So that timer_exit() is required in any case.

It seems like any solution requiring timer_exit() will always be racy,
because of the [very small] window between timer_exit() code finishing,
and the timer function code being disposeable...

        Jeff



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