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

From Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 1/9] sched: add schedule_timeout_idle()
Date 2016-03-22 13:30 +0100
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On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 12:00:18PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:

>  extern signed long schedule_timeout_interruptible(signed long timeout);
>  extern signed long schedule_timeout_killable(signed long timeout);
>  extern signed long schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(signed long timeout);
> +extern signed long schedule_timeout_idle(signed long timeout);

> +/*
> + * Like schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(), except this task will not contribute
> + * to load average.
> + */
> +signed long __sched schedule_timeout_idle(signed long timeout)
> +{
> +	__set_current_state(TASK_IDLE);
> +	return schedule_timeout(timeout);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(schedule_timeout_idle);

Yes we have 3 such other wrappers, but I've gotta ask: why? They seem
pretty pointless.

Why not kill the lot?

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[PATCH 1/9] sched: add schedule_timeout_idle() Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-03-22 12:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/9] sched: add schedule_timeout_idle() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-22 13:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/9] sched: add schedule_timeout_idle() Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-03-22 13:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/9] sched: add schedule_timeout_idle() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-22 14:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/9] sched: add schedule_timeout_idle() Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-03-22 14:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 1/9] sched: add schedule_timeout_idle() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-22 14:30 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 1/9] sched: add schedule_timeout_idle() Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> - 2016-03-22 19:00 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 1/9] sched: add schedule_timeout_idle() Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-03-22 22:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH 1/9] sched: add schedule_timeout_idle() Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-03-23 11:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/9] sched: add schedule_timeout_idle() Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-03-23 00:10 +0100

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