On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:05:42 -0400 Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortma...@windriver.com> wrote: > > No. You move the items off the main list head and add it to the local > > list and they never go back. Just start processing that local list. > > Anything added to the main list after that will not get woken up by > > that current wake_all call. It will need to be woken by another wake_up. > > OK. But we may not run all of the wakeups, because of: > > + if (++woken == nr_exclusive) > + break; > > > > > > > > > What would need to be done as an unwind at the end of processing the > > > local list head before it disappears from existence? Anything? > > > > Not sure what you mean here. > > Per above -- can't there be "orphaned" entries that only exist on the > local list head that didn't get processed? What happens to those? >
Why not just take off nr_exclusive tasks off the main list and add those to the local list, and then wake up all on the local list? -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
