linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/9] Use wait_var_event() instead of I_DIO

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Message-ID: <20240820-ausschalten-lider-e30db5ffbde3@brauner>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 09:22:33 +0200
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, 
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] Use wait_var_event() instead of I_DIO_WAKEUP

On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 03:20:38PM GMT, NeilBrown wrote:
> inode_dio_wait() is essentially an open-coded version of
> wait_var_event().  Similarly inode_dio_wait_interruptible() is an
> open-coded version of wait_var_event_interruptible().
> 
> If we switch to waiting on the var, instead of an imaginary bit, the
> code is more transparent, is shorter, and we can discard I_DIO_WAKEUP.
> 
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
> ---

Neil, I've sent a patch for this last week already removing
__I_DIO_WAKEUP and it's in -next as
0009dc756e81 ("inode: remove __I_DIO_WAKEUP"). So you can drop this
patch, please.