netdev - Re: net: Generalise wq_has

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Date:	Tue, 24 Nov 2015 16:30:25 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	peterz@...radead.org, tatsu@...jp.nec.com, mingo@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	jolsa@...hat.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: net: Generalise wq_has_sleeper helper

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 13:54:23 +0800

> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 05:48:29PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
>>
>> BTW, the networking folks found this years ago and even added
>> helpers to deal with this.  See for example wq_has_sleeper in
>> include/net/sock.h.  It would be good if we can move some of
>> those helpers into wait.h instead.
> 
> Here is a patch against net-next which makes the wq_has_sleeper
> helper available to non-next users:
> 
> ---8<---
> The memory barrier in the helper wq_has_sleeper is needed by just
> about every user of waitqueue_active.  This patch generalises it
> by making it take a wait_queue_head_t directly.  The existing
> helper is renamed to skwq_has_sleeper.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

I'm fine with wherever this patch goes.  Herbert is there any
particular tree where it'll facilitate another user quickest?

Or should I just toss it into net-next?

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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