Return-Path: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from mail-wg0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:42754 "EHLO mail-wg0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751354AbaIYFBI (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2014 01:01:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 07:01:03 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: NeilBrown Cc: Trond Myklebust , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Ingo Molnar , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Jeff Layton , Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5 - resend] SCHED: add some "wait..on_bit...timeout()" interfaces. Message-ID: <20140925050103.GB20431@gmail.com> References: <20140924012422.4838.29188.stgit@notabene.brown> <20140924012832.4838.59410.stgit@notabene.brown> <20140924070418.GA990@gmail.com> <20140925135519.3ae1fa60@notabene.brown> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20140925135519.3ae1fa60@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: * NeilBrown wrote: > > In commit c1221321b7c25b53204447cff9949a6d5a7ddddc > sched: Allow wait_on_bit_action() functions to support a timeout > > I suggested that a "wait_on_bit_timeout()" interface would not meet my > need. This isn't true - I was just over-engineering. > > Including a 'private' field in wait_bit_key instead of a focused > "timeout" field was just premature generalization. If some other > use is ever found, it can be generalized or added later. > > So this patch renames "private" to "timeout" with a meaning "stop > waiting when "jiffies" reaches or passes "timeout", > and adds two of the many possible wait..bit..timeout() interfaces: > > wait_on_page_bit_killable_timeout(), which is the one I want to use, > and out_of_line_wait_on_bit_timeout() which is a reasonably general > example. Others can be added as needed. > > Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) > Signed-off-by: NeilBrown > > --- > This time with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. Looks good to me, thanks! Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Ingo