mu      sync.RWMutex
	workers atomic.Pointer[[]chan expiryOp]

	ctx    context.Context
	objAPI ObjectLayer

	stats expiryStats
}

// PendingTasks returns the number of pending ILM expiry tasks.
func (es *expiryState) PendingTasks() int {
	w := es.workers.Load()
	if w == nil || len(*w) == 0 {
		return 0
	}
	var tasks int
	for _, wrkr := range *w {
		tasks += len(wrkr)
	}