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Date:   Wed, 1 Jun 2022 06:59:09 -0700
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On Tue, 31 May 2022, Ira Weiny wrote:
>Thinking about it I don't see a benefit to a rwlock.  We don't have multiple
>readers.

... but you have concurrent workqueues reading the value of cur_task.

Thanks,
Davidlohr