Re: [RFC v0 0/3] Simple wait queue support

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Aug 06 2015 - 17:37:03 EST


On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 03:31:20PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > 4) poll_wait: currently it and poll_table_entry are both hard coupled
> > to wait_queue_head_t -- so any users of poll_wait are not eligible
> > for conversion to simple wait. (I just happened to notice that
> > recently.) A quick grep shows ~500 poll_wait users.
>
> Looks like a good candidate to test the cwait on :-)

Poll uses custom wake functions, which disqualifies them on the spot.
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