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Commit 9f3520c3 authored by Yuanhan Liu's avatar Yuanhan Liu Committed by NeilBrown
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wait: introduce wait_event_exclusive_cmd



It's just a variant of wait_event_cmd(), with exclusive flag being set.

For cases like RAID5, which puts many processes to sleep until 1/4
resources are free, a wake_up wakes up all processes to run, but
there is one process being able to get the resource as it's protected
by a spin lock. That ends up introducing heavy lock contentions, and
hurts performance badly.

Here introduce wait_event_exclusive_cmd to relieve the lock contention
naturally by letting wake_up just wake up one process.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
v2: its assumed that wait*() and __wait*() have the same arguments - peterz

Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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