linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] sched: Introduce rcuwait

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Date:   Tue, 10 Jan 2017 19:35:47 +0100
From:   Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:     Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
Cc:     mingo@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] sched: Introduce rcuwait

On 01/09, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
>
> Gents, any further thoughts on this?

Both look correct to me, and I think this allows us to make more
optimizations in percpu-rwsem.c.

I am not sure about the naming... Yes, it relies on rcu but this is
just implementation detail. But this is cosmetic and I can't suggest
something better than rcuwait.

Well, speaking of naming, rcuwait_trywake() doesn't look good to me,
rcuwait_wake_up() looks better, "try" is misleading imo. But this is
cosmetic/subjective too.

Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>