Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 11:25:41 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
        Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC v0 0/3] Simple wait queue support
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On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 06:14:12PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 23:36:49 +0200
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 03:31:20PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > > 4) poll_wait: currently it and poll_table_entry are both hard coupled
> > > >    to wait_queue_head_t -- so any users of poll_wait are not eligible
> > > >    for conversion to simple wait. (I just happened to notice that
> > > >    recently.)  A quick grep shows ~500 poll_wait users.
> > > 
> > > Looks like a good candidate to test the cwait on :-)
> > 
> > Poll uses custom wake functions, which disqualifies them on the spot.
> 
> For cwait? That's the complex wait queue (what the current wait queues
> will be called in the future).

Urgh, I don't think we should go rename that.. that's going to be lots
of pain for no to little gain.
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