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on 26/11/2013 23:44 Adrian Chadd said the following:
> Hi,
> 
> On 26 November 2013 12:23, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> on 09/10/2013 11:55 Andriy Gapon said the following:
>>>
>>> I would like to propose to extend taskqueue API with taskqueue_drain_all.
>>> A potential use case: I have a private taskqueue, several kinds of tasks get
>>> executed via it and then I want to make sure that all of them are completed.
>>> Obviously, I have a way to ensure that no new ones get enqueued.
>>
>> Provided I do not get any no-s or why-s I am going to commit the following
>> slightly different version soon:
>>
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/taskqueue_drain_all.diff
>>
>> P.S.
>> taskqueue_drain_running introduced in the above patch could also be used to add
>> wait semantics to taskqueue_block.
>>
> 
> So you're going to keep taskqueue_drain() semantics of running the
> tasks if they're queued?

Yes, of course.  Why?

-- 
Andriy Gapon