Re: [patch V2 11/15] completion: Use simple wait queues

Logan Gunthorpe
2020-03-18T22:28:57Z

On 2020-03-18 2:43 p.m., Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> There is no semantical or functional change:
>
> - completions use the exclusive wait mode which is what swait provides
>
> - complete() wakes one exclusive waiter
>
> - complete_all() wakes all waiters while holding the lock which protects
> the wait queue against newly incoming waiters. The conversion to swait
> preserves this behaviour.
>
> complete_all() might cause unbound latencies with a large number of waiters
> being woken at once, but most complete_all() usage sites are either in
> testing or initialization code or have only a really small number of
> concurrent waiters which for now does not cause a latency problem. Keep it
> simple for now.

Seems like it would be worth adding a note for this to the
complete_all() doc string. Otherwise developers will not likely find out
about this issue and may not keep it as simple as you'd like.

Logan