linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/16] sched/wait: Collapse __wait

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Message-ID: <20131008204056.GR5790@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 8 Oct 2013 13:40:56 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo.kernel.org@...il.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] sched/wait: Collapse __wait_event macros -v5

On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 09:47:18PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 12:23:31PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > 
> > > * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 10:04:16AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 10:44:05PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > slightly related; do we want to do something like the following two
> > > > > > > patches?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > and
> > > > > 
> > > > > Yeah, both look good to me - but I'd move them into 
> > > > > kernel/sched/completion.c and kernel/sched/wait.c if no-one objects.
> > > > 
> > > > Do you also want to suck in semaphore.c mutex.c rwsem.c spinlock.c etc? 
> > > > Or do you want to create something like kernel/locking/ for all that.
> > > 
> > > Yeah, I think kernel/locking/ would be a suitable place for those, and I'd 
> > > move lockdep*.c there too. (Such things are best done near the end of a 
> > > merge window, when there's not much pending, to not disrupt development.)
> > > 
> > > kernel/*.c is a pretty crowded place with 100+ files currently, I've been 
> > > gradually working towards depopulating it slowly but surely for subsystems 
> > > that I co-maintain or where I'm frequently active. We already have:
> > > 
> > >   kernel/sched/
> > >   kernel/events/
> > >   kernel/irq/
> > >   kernel/time/
> > >   kernel/trace/
> > > 
> > > and the deeper kernel/*/* hierarchies already host another ~100 .c files. 
> > > So the transition is half done already I suspect.
> > 
> > Should I be thinking about making a kernel/rcu?
> 
> I wanted to raise it with you at the KS :-)

Sorry for jumping the gun.  ;-)

> To me it would sure look nice to have kernel/rcu/tree.c, 
> kernel/rcu/tiny.c, kernel/rcu/core.c, etc.
> 
> [ ... and we would certainly also break new ground by introducing a
>   "torture.c" file, for the first time in Linux kernel history! ;-) ]

Ooh...  I had better act fast!  ;-)

> But it's really your call, this is something you should only do if you are 
> comfortable with it.

I have actually been thinking about it off and on for some time.

								Thanx, Paul

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