linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] swait: add idle to make idle-hacks on kthreads explicit

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Date:   Wed, 21 Jun 2017 09:48:46 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>
Cc:     peterz@...radead.org, oleg@...hat.com, josh@...htriplett.org,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
        jiangshanlai@...il.com, paul.gortmaker@...driver.com,
        boqun.feng@...il.com, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
        dmitry.torokhov@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] swait: add idle to make idle-hacks on kthreads
 explicit

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 02:45:45PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> In this proper patch form I've made the non-timeout idle swait void.
> I've also integrated Paul's comment / ident changes, and added documentation
> as suggested by Boqun.
> 
> Let me know if there are issue, otherwise, Paul feel free to take!

Nice docbook comments!  I replaced my modified commits with your new ones,
queued for further review and testing.

Just out of curiosity, why the three-line swait_event_idle() with the
"break" statement instead of the two-line version with the inverted
condition?  (I am fine either way, just curious.)

							Thanx, Paul

> Luis R. Rodriguez (2):
>   swait: add idle variants which don't contribute to load average
>   rcu: use idle versions of swait to make idle-hack clear
> 
>  include/linux/swait.h | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  kernel/rcu/tree.c     | 11 +++++------
>  2 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.11.0
>