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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 23:33:16 +0100
From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: dhowells@...hat.com, Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 02/21] Add a prelocked wake-up
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > Add a wakeup call for a case whereby the caller already has the waitqueue
> > spinlock held.
>
> That naming is crazy.
Sorry, yeah. This is a bit hacked together at the moment and needs some more
tidying up. I've had a lot of problems with performance regressions of up to
40% from seemingly simple changes involving moving locks around - it turns out
that the problem was that I was running with kasan enabled.
David
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