Which is the equivalent of what we have in regular waitqueues.
I'm not crazy about the name, but this also helps us get both
apis closer -- which iirc comes originally from the -net folks.
We also duplicate the comments for the lockless swait_active(),
from wait.h. Future users will make use of this interface.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
There are cases where folks are using an interruptible swait when
using kthreads. This is rather confusing given you'd expect
interruptible waits to be -- interruptible, but kthreads are not
interruptible ! The reason for such practice though is to avoid
having these kthreads contribute to the system load average.
When systems are idle some kthreads may spend a lot of time blocking if
using swait_event_timeout(). This would contribute to the system load
average. On systems without preemption this would mean the load average
of an idle system is bumped to 2 instead of 0. On systems with PREEMPT=y
this would mean the load average of an idle system is bumped to 3
instead of 0.
This adds proper API using TASK_IDLE to make such goals explicit and
avoid confusion.
Suggested-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The existing wait queue support has support for custom wake up call
backs, wake flags, wake key (passed to call back) and exclusive
flags that allow wakers to be tagged as exclusive, for limiting
the number of wakers.
In a lot of cases, none of these features are used, and hence we
can benefit from a slimmed down version that lowers memory overhead
and reduces runtime overhead.
The concept originated from -rt, where waitqueues are a constant
source of trouble, as we can't convert the head lock to a raw
spinlock due to fancy and long lasting callbacks.
With the removal of custom callbacks, we can use a raw lock for
queue list manipulations, hence allowing the simple wait support
to be used in -rt.
[Patch is from PeterZ which is based on Thomas version. Commit message is
written by Paul G.
Daniel: - Fixed some compile issues
- Added non-lazy implementation of swake_up_locked as suggested
by Boqun Feng.]
Originally-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455871601-27484-2-git-send-email-wagi@monom.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
