From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de>,
linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
bigeasy@linutronix.de, tglx@linutronix.de,
paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v0 0/3] Simple wait queue support
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 11:25:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150807092541.GE16853@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150806181412.5b474213@gandalf.local.home>
On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 06:14:12PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 23:36:49 +0200
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 03:31:20PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > > 4) poll_wait: currently it and poll_table_entry are both hard coupled
> > > > to wait_queue_head_t -- so any users of poll_wait are not eligible
> > > > for conversion to simple wait. (I just happened to notice that
> > > > recently.) A quick grep shows ~500 poll_wait users.
> > >
> > > Looks like a good candidate to test the cwait on :-)
> >
> > Poll uses custom wake functions, which disqualifies them on the spot.
>
> For cwait? That's the complex wait queue (what the current wait queues
> will be called in the future).
Urgh, I don't think we should go rename that.. that's going to be lots
of pain for no to little gain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-07 9:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-05 13:30 [RFC v0 0/3] Simple wait queue support Daniel Wagner
2015-08-05 13:30 ` [RFC v0 1/3] KVM: use simple waitqueue for vcpu->wq Daniel Wagner
2015-08-05 13:30 ` [RFC v0 2/3] sched/completion: convert completions to use simple wait queues Daniel Wagner
2015-08-05 13:30 ` [RFC v0 3/3] rcu: use simple wait queues where possible in rcutree Daniel Wagner
2015-08-06 19:22 ` [RFC v0 0/3] Simple wait queue support Paul Gortmaker
2015-08-06 19:31 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-08-06 21:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-08-06 22:14 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-08-07 9:25 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2015-08-07 11:29 ` Steven Rostedt
2015-08-07 6:42 ` Daniel Wagner
2015-08-07 12:00 ` Daniel Wagner
2015-08-11 6:24 ` Daniel Wagner
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