Re: [RFC PATCH 07/14] mm/huge_page: Convert khugepaged() into kthread worker API

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue Jul 28 2015 - 13:36:44 EST


Hello,

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 04:39:24PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> -static void khugepaged_wait_work(void)
> +static void khugepaged_wait_func(struct kthread_work *dummy)
> {
> if (khugepaged_has_work()) {
> if (!khugepaged_scan_sleep_millisecs)
> - return;
> + goto out;
>
> wait_event_freezable_timeout(khugepaged_wait,
> - kthread_should_stop(),
> + !khugepaged_enabled(),
> msecs_to_jiffies(khugepaged_scan_sleep_millisecs));
> - return;
> + goto out;
> }
>
> if (khugepaged_enabled())
> wait_event_freezable(khugepaged_wait, khugepaged_wait_event());
> +
> +out:
> + if (khugepaged_enabled())
> + queue_kthread_work(&khugepaged_worker,
> + &khugepaged_do_scan_work);
> }

There gotta be a better way to do this. It's outright weird to
convert it over to work item based interface and then handle idle
periods by injecting wait work items. If there's an external event
which wakes up the worker, convert that to a queueing event. If it's
a timed event, implement a delayed work and queue that with delay.

Thanks.

--
tejun
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