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David Howells 3bde31a4ac SLOW_WORK: Allow a requeueable work item to sleep till the thread is needed 
Add a function to allow a requeueable work item to sleep till the thread
processing it is needed by the slow-work facility to perform other work.

Sometimes a work item can't progress immediately, but must wait for the
completion of another work item that's currently being processed by another
slow-work thread.

In some circumstances, the waiting item could instead - theoretically - put
itself back on the queue and yield its thread back to the slow-work facility,
thus waiting till it gets processing time again before attempting to progress.
This would allow other work items processing time on that thread.

However, this only works if there is something on the queue for it to queue
behind - otherwise it will just get a thread again immediately, and will end
up cycling between the queue and the thread, eating up valuable CPU time.

So, slow_work_sleep_till_thread_needed() is provided such that an item can put
itself on a wait queue that will wake it up when the event it is actually
interested in occurs, then call this function in lieu of calling schedule().

This function will then sleep until either the item's event occurs or another
work item appears on the queue.  If another work item is queued, but the
item's event hasn't occurred, then the work item should requeue itself and
yield the thread back to the slow-work facility by returning.

This can be used by CacheFiles for an object that is being created on one
thread to wait for an object being deleted on another thread where there is
nothing on the queue for the creation to go and wait behind.  As soon as an
item appears on the queue that could be given thread time instead, CacheFiles
can stick the creating object back on the queue and return to the slow-work
facility - assuming the object deletion didn't also complete.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:10:57 +00:00
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gcov microblaze: Enable GCOV_PROFILE_ALL 2009-09-21 14:29:21 +02:00
irq genirq: try_one_irq() must be called with irq disabled 2009-11-07 21:44:45 +01:00
power PM / Hibernate: Add newline to load_image() fail path 2009-11-03 11:03:09 +01:00
time headers: remove sched.h from interrupt.h 2009-10-11 11:20:58 -07:00
trace ftrace: Fix unmatched locking in ftrace_regex_write() 2009-11-04 01:42:10 -05:00
.gitignore
acct.c bsdacct: switch credentials for writing to the accounting file 2009-08-24 11:33:40 +10:00
async.c
audit_tree.c Fix rule eviction order for AUDIT_DIR 2009-06-24 00:02:38 -04:00
audit_watch.c Audit: reorganize struct audit_watch to save 8 bytes 2009-09-24 03:50:25 -04:00
audit.c Audit: send signal info if selinux is disabled 2009-09-24 03:50:26 -04:00
audit.h Fix rule eviction order for AUDIT_DIR 2009-06-24 00:02:38 -04:00
auditfilter.c Audit: clean up all op= output to include string quoting 2009-06-24 00:00:52 -04:00
auditsc.c Audit: rearrange audit_context to save 16 bytes per struct 2009-09-24 03:50:26 -04:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c
cgroup_freezer.c cgroups: let ss->can_attach and ss->attach do whole threadgroups at a time 2009-09-24 07:20:58 -07:00
cgroup.c cgroup: fix strstrip() misuse 2009-10-29 07:39:25 -07:00
compat.c
configs.c
cpu.c Merge branch 'x86-pat-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-09-15 09:19:38 -07:00
cpuset.c cgroups: let ss->can_attach and ss->attach do whole threadgroups at a time 2009-09-24 07:20:58 -07:00
cred-internals.h
cred.c creds_are_invalid() needs to be exported for use by modules: 2009-09-23 11:02:26 -07:00
delayacct.c headers: taskstats_kern.h trim 2009-09-18 09:48:52 -07:00
dma.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c connector: fix regression introduced by sid connector 2009-10-29 07:39:25 -07:00
extable.c
fork.c Correct nr_processes() when CPUs have been unplugged 2009-11-03 07:52:39 -08:00
freezer.c sched: fix nr_uninterruptible accounting of frozen tasks really 2009-07-18 14:19:53 +02:00
futex_compat.c futex: Fix compat_futex to be same as futex for REQUEUE_PI 2009-08-10 15:41:12 +02:00
futex.c futex: Fix spurious wakeup for requeue_pi really 2009-10-28 20:34:34 +01:00
groups.c
hrtimer.c Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-10-05 12:04:16 -07:00
hung_task.c sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler 2009-09-24 07:21:04 -07:00
itimer.c itimers: Add tracepoints for itimer 2009-08-29 14:10:07 +02:00
kallsyms.c kallsyms: use new arch_is_kernel_text() 2009-09-23 07:39:30 -07:00
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c kexec: fix omitting offset in extended crashkernel syntax 2009-07-29 19:10:34 -07:00
kfifo.c kfifo: Use "const" definitions 2009-09-19 13:13:17 -07:00
kgdb.c
kmod.c Revert "kmod: fix race in usermodehelper code" 2009-09-23 18:12:10 -07:00
kprobes.c const: constify remaining file_operations 2009-10-01 16:11:11 -07:00
ksysfs.c
kthread.c sched: Fix kthread_bind() by moving the body of kthread_bind() to sched.c 2009-11-03 07:25:00 +01:00
latencytop.c
lockdep_internals.h lockdep: BFS cleanup 2009-07-24 10:53:29 +02:00
lockdep_proc.c seq_file: constify seq_operations 2009-09-23 07:39:29 -07:00
lockdep_states.h
lockdep.c lockdep: Use cpu_clock() for lockstat 2009-10-09 15:56:44 +02:00
Makefile SLOW_WORK: Allow the work items to be viewed through a /proc file 2009-11-19 18:10:51 +00:00
module.c module: fix up CONFIG_KALLSYMS=n build. 2009-10-01 16:11:11 -07:00
mutex-debug.c headers: remove sched.h from interrupt.h 2009-10-11 11:20:58 -07:00
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c
mutex.h
notifier.c
ns_cgroup.c cgroups: let ss->can_attach and ss->attach do whole threadgroups at a time 2009-09-24 07:20:58 -07:00
nsproxy.c nsproxy: extract create_nsproxy() 2009-06-18 13:03:56 -07:00
panic.c Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-10-08 12:16:35 -07:00
params.c param: fix setting arrays of bool 2009-10-29 08:56:20 +10:30
perf_event.c perf events: Don't generate events for the idle task when exclude_idle is set 2009-10-23 09:35:02 +02:00
pid_namespace.c pidns: deny CLONE_PARENT|CLONE_NEWPID combination 2009-09-24 07:21:04 -07:00
pid.c mm: also use alloc_large_system_hash() for the PID hash table 2009-09-22 07:17:38 -07:00
pm_qos_params.c
posix-cpu-timers.c itimers: Add tracepoints for itimer 2009-08-29 14:10:07 +02:00
posix-timers.c time: Introduce CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE 2009-08-21 21:43:46 +02:00
printk.c printk: add printk_delay to make messages readable for some scenarios 2009-09-23 07:39:28 -07:00
profile.c kernel/profile.c: Switch /proc/irq/prof_cpu_mask to seq_file 2009-09-20 20:15:40 +02:00
ptrace.c ptrace: __ptrace_detach: do __wake_up_parent() if we reap the tracee 2009-09-24 07:20:59 -07:00
rcupdate.c rcu: Move rcu_barrier() to rcutree 2009-10-07 08:11:20 +02:00
rcutorture.c rcu: Clean up code to address Ingo's checkpatch feedback 2009-09-23 19:46:30 +02:00
rcutree_plugin.h rcu: Fix TREE_PREEMPT_RCU CPU_HOTPLUG bad-luck hang 2009-10-15 20:33:01 +02:00
rcutree_trace.c rcu: Make hot-unplugged CPU relinquish its own RCU callbacks 2009-10-07 08:11:20 +02:00
rcutree.c rcu: Fix long-grace-period race between forcing and initialization 2009-11-02 16:06:21 +01:00
rcutree.h rcu: Fix long-grace-period race between forcing and initialization 2009-11-02 16:06:21 +01:00
relay.c const: mark struct vm_struct_operations 2009-09-27 11:39:25 -07:00
res_counter.c memcg: some modification to softlimit under hierarchical memory reclaim. 2009-10-01 16:11:13 -07:00
resource.c walk system ram range 2009-09-23 07:39:41 -07:00
rtmutex_common.h
rtmutex-debug.c
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c
rtmutex.c rtmutex: Avoid deadlock in rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock() 2009-08-06 05:50:21 +02:00
rtmutex.h
rwsem.c
sched_clock.c sched_clock: Fix atomicity/continuity bug by using cmpxchg64() 2009-09-30 22:56:10 +02:00
sched_cpupri.c sched: Add new prio to cpupri before removing old prio 2009-08-02 14:26:09 +02:00
sched_cpupri.h
sched_debug.c sched: Add new wakeup preemption mode: WAKEUP_RUNNING 2009-09-17 10:17:25 +02:00
sched_fair.c sched: Strengthen buddies and mitigate buddy induced latencies 2009-10-23 23:48:28 +02:00
sched_features.h sched: Add new wakeup preemption mode: WAKEUP_RUNNING 2009-09-17 10:17:25 +02:00
sched_idletask.c sched: Simplify sys_sched_rr_get_interval() system call 2009-09-21 09:53:55 +02:00
sched_rt.c sched: Simplify sys_sched_rr_get_interval() system call 2009-09-21 09:53:55 +02:00
sched_stats.h
sched.c sched: Use root_task_group_empty only with FAIR_GROUP_SCHED 2009-11-08 13:15:48 +01:00
seccomp.c
semaphore.c
signal.c signals: inline __fatal_signal_pending 2009-09-24 07:21:01 -07:00
slow-work-proc.c SLOW_WORK: Allow the work items to be viewed through a /proc file 2009-11-19 18:10:51 +00:00
slow-work.c SLOW_WORK: Allow a requeueable work item to sleep till the thread is needed 2009-11-19 18:10:57 +00:00
slow-work.h SLOW_WORK: Allow the work items to be viewed through a /proc file 2009-11-19 18:10:51 +00:00
smp.c cpumask: remove arch_send_call_function_ipi 2009-09-24 09:34:47 +09:30
softirq.c softirq: add BLOCK_IOPOLL to softirq_to_name 2009-09-17 15:53:44 -04:00
softlockup.c sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler 2009-09-24 07:21:04 -07:00
spinlock.c locking: Allow arch-inlined spinlocks 2009-08-31 18:08:50 +02:00
srcu.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c
sys_ni.c Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2009-09-24 15:13:11 -07:00
sys.c Merge branch 'hwpoison-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 2009-10-29 08:20:00 -07:00
sysctl_check.c sysctl: fix false positives when PROC_SYSCTL=n 2009-10-29 07:39:30 -07:00
sysctl.c Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 2009-09-24 07:53:22 -07:00
taskstats.c genetlink: make netns aware 2009-07-12 14:03:27 -07:00
test_kprobes.c
time.c time: Prevent 32 bit overflow with set_normalized_timespec() 2009-09-15 10:17:30 +02:00
timeconst.pl
timer.c Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-09-23 09:46:15 -07:00
tracepoint.c trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files 2009-09-21 15:14:55 +02:00
tsacct.c
uid16.c headers: utsname.h redux 2009-09-23 18:13:10 -07:00
up.c
user_namespace.c
user.c uids: Prevent tear down race 2009-11-02 16:02:39 +01:00
utsname_sysctl.c sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler 2009-09-24 07:21:04 -07:00
utsname.c utsns: extract creeate_uts_ns() 2009-06-18 13:03:55 -07:00
wait.c locking, sched: Give waitqueue spinlocks their own lockdep classes 2009-08-10 14:43:09 +02:00
workqueue.c workqueue: fix race condition in schedule_on_each_cpu() 2009-11-17 17:40:33 -08:00