On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 11:49:01AM +0300, Julian Anastasov wrote:

>       After checking our code in net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_sync.c,
> sync_thread_master(), we may also need some wrappers:
> 
> - schedule_timeout_idle (instead of schedule_timeout call):
>       __set_current_state(TASK_IDLE);
>       return schedule_timeout(timeout);
> 
>       - we here are really idle, so "N" looks ok

So I don't get the point of the schedule_timeout_*() stubs. What are
they for? Why would one use an unconditional schedule_timeout() call?
Isn't that what msleep() is for?

> - pair of __wait_event_idle(wq, condition) and
>       wait_event_idle(wq, condition) macros
> 
>       - we here are write-blocked for socket, not sure
>       if this blocked vs idle difference is useful to
>       represent, in new bit for this blocked state "B"=2048,
>       with 2 TASK_NOLOAD variants: N(idle) and B(blocked,
>       2|1024|2048, eg. for read-blocked or write-blocked).
>       It will need additional argument 'state'/'blocked' for 
>       *wait_event_idle().

Completely untested.

---
 include/linux/wait.h | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/wait.h b/include/linux/wait.h
index 2db83349865b..b9ef6bacf633 100644
--- a/include/linux/wait.h
+++ b/include/linux/wait.h
@@ -307,6 +307,26 @@ do {                                                       
                \
        __ret;                                                          \
 })
 
+#define __wait_event_idle(wq, condition)                               \
+       (void)___wait_event(wq, condition, TASK_IDLE, 0, 0,             \
+                           schedule())
+
+
+/**
+ * wait_event_idle - sleep until a condition get true; do not contribute to 
the loadavg
+ * @wq: the waitqueue to wait on
+ * @condition: a C expression for the event to wait for
+ *
+ * See wait_event()
+ */
+#define wait_event_idle(wq, condition)                                 \
+do {                                                                   \
+       might_sleep();                                                  \
+       if (condition)                                                  \
+               break;                                                  \
+       __wait_event_idle(wq, condition);                               \
+} while (0)
+
 #define __wait_event_timeout(wq, condition, timeout)                   \
        ___wait_event(wq, ___wait_cond_timeout(condition),              \
                      TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, 0, timeout,                 \
@@ -346,8 +366,8 @@ do {                                                        
                \
                      __ret = schedule_timeout(__ret); try_to_freeze())
 
 /*
- * like wait_event_timeout() -- except it uses TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE to avoid
- * increasing load and is freezable.
+ * like wait_event_timeout() -- except it uses TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE
+ * and is freezable.
  */
 #define wait_event_freezable_timeout(wq, condition, timeout)           \
 ({                                                                     \
@@ -358,6 +378,23 @@ do {                                                       
                \
        __ret;                                                          \
 })
 
+#define __wait_event_idle_timeout(wq, condition, timeout)              \
+       ___wait_event(wq, ___wait_cond_timeout(condition),              \
+                     TASK_IDLE, 0, timeout,                            \
+                     __ret = schedule_timeout(__ret))
+
+/*
+ * like wait_event_timeout() -- except it uses TASK_IDLE to avoid loadavg
+ */
+#define wait_event_idle_timeout(wq, condition, timeout)                        
\
+({                                                                     \
+       long __ret = timeout;                                           \
+       might_sleep();                                                  \
+       if (!___wait_cond_timeout(condition))                           \
+               ret = __wait_event_idle_timeout(wq, condition, timeout);\
+       __ret;                                                          \
+})
+
 #define __wait_event_cmd(wq, condition, cmd1, cmd2)                    \
        (void)___wait_event(wq, condition, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, 0, 0,  \
                            cmd1; schedule(); cmd2)
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