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    SUNRPC: change service idle list to be an llist · 9bd4161c
    NeilBrown authored
    With an llist we don't need to take a lock to add a thread to the list,
    though we still need a lock to remove it.  That will go in the next
    patch.
    
    Unlike double-linked lists, a thread cannot reliably remove itself from
    the list.  Only the first thread can be removed, and that can change
    asynchronously.  So some care is needed.
    
    We already check if there is pending work to do, so we are unlikely to
    add ourselves to the idle list and then want to remove ourselves again.
    
    If we DO find something needs to be done after adding ourselves to the
    list, we simply wake up the first thread on the list.  If that was us,
    we successfully removed ourselves and can continue.  If it was some
    other thread, they will do the work that needs to be done.  We can
    safely sleep until woken.
    
    We also remove the test on freezing() from rqst_should_sleep().  Instead
    we set TASK_FREEZABLE before scheduling.  This makes is safe to
    schedule() when a freeze is pending.  As we now loop waiting to be
    removed from the idle queue, this is a cleaner way to handle freezing.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
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