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SubjectRe: [PATCH] sched: swait: use wake_up_process() instead of wake_up_state()
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On Wed, Mar 17 2021 at 11:41, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-03-17 at 10:46 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> * Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, 2021-03-16 at 19:20 +0800, Wang Qing wrote:
>> > > Why not just use wake_up_process().
>> >
>> > IMO this is not an improvement. There are other places where explicit
>> > TASK_NORMAL is used as well, and they're all perfectly clear as is.
>>
>> Arguably those could all be converted to wake_up_process() as well.
>> It's a very small kernel code size optimization. There's about 3 such
>> places, could be converted in a single patch.
>
> I still prefer the way it sits, but that's certainlyly a heck of a lot
> better change justification than "why not" :)

Which begs the reply "Why should we?" just for 10 bytes less of kernel
text :)

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