linux-kernel - Re: [patch -rt 1/2] KVM: use simple waitqueue for vcpu->wq

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Message-ID: <20150807164131.GA20239@infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 7 Aug 2015 09:41:31 -0700
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org,
	Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@...hat.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch -rt 1/2] KVM: use simple waitqueue for vcpu->wq

On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 01:14:15PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On that, we cannot convert completions to swait. Because swait wake_all
> must not happen from IRQ context, and complete_all() typically is used
> from just that.

If swait queues aren't useable from IRQ context they will be fairly
useless.  What's the problem with making them irq safe?
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