Re: [RFC v0 0/3] Simple wait queue support

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 23:36:49 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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).

-- Steve
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