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SubjectRe: [RFC v0 0/3] Simple wait queue support
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).

-- Steve


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