Re: [PATCH 1/9] sched: add schedule_timeout_idle()

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Tue Mar 22 2016 - 13:58:01 EST


On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 02:22:49PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 02:08:23PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Tue 22-03-16 13:51:13, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > If that sounds like a more appropriate plan I won't object. I can simply
> > change my patch to do __set_current_state and schedule_timeout.
>
> I dunno, I just think these wrappers are silly.

Adding out-of-line, exported wrappers for every single task state is
kind of silly. But it's still a common operation to wait in a certain
state, so having a single function for that makes sense. Kind of like
spin_lock_irqsave and friends.

Maybe this would be better?:

static inline long schedule_timeout_state(long timeout, long state)
{
__set_current_state(state);
return schedule_timeout(timeout);
}