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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] wait-simple: Introduce the simple waitqueue implementation
On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 20:06:37 -0500
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> wrote:

> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
>
> The wait_queue is a swiss army knife and in most of the cases the
> full complexity is not needed. Here we provide a slim version, as
> it lowers memory consumption and runtime overhead.
>
> The concept originated from RT, where waitqueues are a constant
> source of trouble, as we can't convert the head lock to a raw
> spinlock due to fancy and long lasting callbacks.
>
> The smp_mb() was added (by Steven Rostedt) to fix a race condition
> with swait wakeups vs. adding items to the list.

For this part, you can also add my:

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

I'll also look at these and test them a bit against mainline.

Thanks for doing this!

-- Steve

>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> [PG: carry forward from multiple v3.10-rt patches to mainline, align
> function names with "normal" wait queue names, update commit log.]
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
> ---



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