Re: [PATCH 1/2] sched/wait: Break up long wake list walk

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On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 8:15 PM, Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
But what should we do when some other (non page) wait queue runs into the
same problem?

Hopefully the same: root-cause it.

Or you can always use wake_qs; which exists _exactly_ for the issues you
are running into. Note that Linus does not want them in general wait:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/7/605

... but you can always use them on your own if you really need to (ie locks,
ipc, etc).

Thanks,
Davidlohr

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