linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] (latest tip) make dequeue

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Date:	Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:28:27 +1030
From:	David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] (latest tip) make dequeue_task less confusing

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com> wrote:
>   
>> No.  On further consideration, I don't like my patch.
>>     
>
> With the __dequeue_task()+inline suggestion i made i think it 
> would be a micro-optimization and would not break symmetry in a 
> significant way.

What I realised, upon closer examination, is that enqueue_task has the
same issue (with wakeup); and that the one places where sleep and wakeup
are set are in a single call for each, to (de|en)activate_task. If it
made sense to do what I suggested, then it should be done all the way,
that is, move the sleep and wakeup code to those two places, and
replicate the (admittedly smaller) *queue_task and *activate_task at
those points. This smacks of premature optimisation.
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