On Thu, Nov 23 2017 at  5:27pm -0500,
Mikulas Patocka [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, 23 Nov 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

quoted

Please run this past the swait authors.  It is supposed to be a simple
and self-contained API so I'd expect this patch to be seen critical.

I already sent it to Peter Zijlstra and didn't get a response yet.

quoted

You might be better off to just use the normal complex waitqueues if
you want to micro-optimize like this.

If we wanted to micro-optimize, we should use the simpler wait queue 
variant.


If these functions are not supposed to be used by others, then
- why are they in in file swait.h?
- why does the implementation export swake_up_locked which assumes that 
someone else will lock the spinlock before calling it?

Hi,

I'd like to get this patch upstream.  I'm happy to send it to Linus via
linux-dm.git but I wanted to check with others who might care more
deeply about swait interfaces to get their Ack (or otherwise):
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/commit/?h=dm-4.18&id=4a2ec3f321f83db09da4824025420586c9ef1612

Here is Mikulas' DM driver code that makes use of __prepare_to_swait()
and __finish_swait():

static int writecache_endio_thread(void *data)
{
        struct dm_writecache *wc = data;

        while (1) {
                DECLARE_SWAITQUEUE(wait);
                struct list_head list;

                raw_spin_lock_irq(&wc->endio_thread_wait.lock);
continue_locked:
                if (!list_empty(&wc->endio_list))
                        goto pop_from_list;
                set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
                __prepare_to_swait(&wc->endio_thread_wait, &wait);
                raw_spin_unlock_irq(&wc->endio_thread_wait.lock);

                if (unlikely(kthread_should_stop())) {
                        finish_swait(&wc->endio_thread_wait, &wait);
                        break;
                }

                schedule();

                raw_spin_lock_irq(&wc->endio_thread_wait.lock);
                __finish_swait(&wc->endio_thread_wait, &wait);
                goto continue_locked;

pop_from_list:
                list = wc->endio_list;
                list.next->prev = list.prev->next = &list;
                INIT_LIST_HEAD(&wc->endio_list);
                raw_spin_unlock_irq(&wc->endio_thread_wait.lock);
                ...