linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] sched: implement the exclusive wait queue as a LIFO queue

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Message-ID: <8526.1272447122@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:32:02 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
	Roland Dreier <rolandd@...co.com>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] sched: implement the exclusive wait queue as a LIFO queue

Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com> wrote:

> @@ -50,6 +48,7 @@ struct wait_bit_queue {
>  struct __wait_queue_head {
>  	spinlock_t lock;
>  	struct list_head task_list;
> +	struct list_head task_list_ex;

It would be preferable it if you could avoid making struct __wait_queue_head
bigger.  That will increase the size of a lot of things.

David
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