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

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> So I propose testing the attached trivial patch. It may not do
> anything at all. But the existing code is actually doing extra work
> just to be fragile, in case the scenario above can happen.

Side note: the patch compiles for me. But that is literally ALL the
testing it has gotten. I spent more time writing that email trying to
explain what my thinking was about that patch, than I spent anywhere
else on that patch.

So it may be garbage. Caveat probator.

              Linus