Re: [PATCH 1/1] kthread: disable preemption during complete()

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 17:54 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Yes, but this "avoid the preemption after wakeup" can actually help
> kthread_bind()->wait_task_inactive() ?

Yeah.

> This reminds me, Peter had a patch which teaches wait_task_inactive()
> to use sched_in/sched_out notifiers to avoid the polling... 

I did, but from what I could remember you shot holes in it and I didn't
find a way to plug them and not make it a bigger mess than it is now :/
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