Re: [RFC v2 1/2] swait: add idle variants which don't contribute to load average

[ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)]

"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> writes:

> There are cases where folks are using an interruptible swait when
> using kthreads. This is rather confusing given you'd expect
> interruptible waits to be -- interruptible, but kthreads are not
> interruptible ! The reason for such practice though is to avoid
> having these kthreads contribute to the system load average.
>
> When systems are idle some kthreads may spend a lot of time blocking if
> using swait_event_timeout(). This would contribute to the system load
> average. On systems without preemption this would mean the load average
> of an idle system is bumped to 2 instead of 0. On systems with PREEMPT=y
> this would mean the load average of an idle system is bumped to 3
> instead of 0.
>
> This adds proper API using TASK_IDLE to make such goals explicit and
> avoid confusion.
>
> Suggested-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
> ---
>  include/linux/swait.h | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/swait.h b/include/linux/swait.h
> index 2c700694d50a..105c70e23286 100644
> --- a/include/linux/swait.h
> +++ b/include/linux/swait.h
> @@ -194,4 +194,29 @@ do {									\
>  	__ret;								\
>  })
>  
> +#define __swait_event_idle(wq, condition)				\
> +	___swait_event(wq, condition, TASK_IDLE, 0, schedule())
> +
> +#define swait_event_idle(wq, condition)					\
> +({									\
> +	int __ret = 0;							\
> +	if (!(condition))						\
> +		__ret = __swait_event_idle(wq, condition);		\
> +	__ret;								\
> +})

The wait isn't interruptible so a return code doesn't make sense here.

> +#define __swait_event_idle_timeout(wq, condition, timeout)		\
> +	___swait_event(wq, ___wait_cond_timeout(condition),		\
> +		       TASK_IDLE, timeout,				\
> +		       __ret = schedule_timeout(__ret))
> +
> +#define swait_event_idle_timeout(wq, condition, timeout)		\
> +({									\
> +	long __ret = timeout;						\
> +	if (!___wait_cond_timeout(condition))				\
> +		__ret = __swait_event_idle_timeout(wq,			\
> +						   condition, timeout);	\
> +	__ret;								\
> +})
> +
>  #endif /* _LINUX_SWAIT_H */