Re: [PATCH 1/3] wait-simple: Introduce the simple waitqueueimplementation

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 08:06:37PM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The wait_queue is a swiss army knife and in most of the cases the
> full complexity is not needed.  Here we provide a slim version, as
> it lowers memory consumption and runtime overhead.

Might it make more sense to just make the simple one the default and use
the complex one in the few cases that need it?

It would also be good to enumerate those cases.  The wake callbacks come
to mind, but I guess there are more?

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