On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:02:19AM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 18:05 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > > I can see what you mean, but I think the designs in core code should > > be made as efficient as possible _unless_ there is some complication > > in doing otherwise (not the other way around). > > > > This is producing 2 unrequired context switches, so I really would > > like to see it done properly. Setting up a timer is really pretty > > simple (or if you would care to implement a delayed process wakeup > > API, I think that would be useful -- I'm surprised there isn't one > > already). > > OK, NP, I'll work on this. Thanks. > The only problem I see is that it will involve more maintainers and > trees (I guess Ingo?), and make it even more difficult for me to reach > upstream :-) But let's try and see! I wouldn't worry about that. It's so simple that if you end up coding the helper function to do a timer delayed wakeup, just send it to Jens in your series, cc Ingo on it if you'd like. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
