Re: [PATCH-v2 1/3] percpu_ida: Make percpu_ida_alloc + callers accept task state bitmask

[Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 08:12:29PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:40:04AM -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 11:53 -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> > > Hi Peter,
> > > 
> > > Does this satisfy your questions..?
> > > 
> > > Do you have any more concerns about TASK_RUNNING + prepare_to_wait()
> > > usage in percpu_ida_alloc() that need to be addressed before I can drop
> > > this series into target-pending/for-next to address the original bug..?
> > > 
> > 
> > Given the silence, 
> 
> You mean the silence in which I send a 4+ emails earlier today?
> 
> > I'll assume your OK with the initial TASK_RUNNING +
> > prepare_to_wait() bit, right..?
> 
> No, I would prefer not to do that. While it does work its awkward at
> best.

I do like the improvements, but personally, I really don't see anything wrong
with the initial patch and for backporting that really is what we should do -
this code _is_ subtle enough backporting our (your) improvements is not
something I'd want to do, having debugged this code when I first wrote it...