linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Input: evdev

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Date:   Fri, 29 May 2020 14:36:21 +0000
From:   kl@...wtf
To:     linux-input@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     dmitry.torokhov@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: evdev - per-client waitgroups

April 29, 2020 8:41 PM, "Kenny Levinsen" <kl@...wtf> wrote:

> All evdev clients share a common waitgroup. On new input events, this
> waitgroup is woken once for every client that did not filter the events,
> leading to duplicated and unwanted wakeups.
> 
> Split the shared waitgroup into per-client waitgroups for more
> fine-grained wakeups.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kenny Levinsen <kl@...wtf>
> ---
> drivers/input/evdev.c | 19 +++++++++----------
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Here's a 1-month ping for lack of better idea. Apologies if that's not the right thing to do, just worried that things might have been lost to the great inbox event horizon.