Standardize the idle polling indicator to TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG such that both TIF_NEED_RESCHED and TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG are in the same word. This will allow us, using fetch_or(), to both set NEED_RESCHED and check for POLLING_NRFLAG in a single operation and avoid pointless wakeups. Changing from the non-atomic thread_info::status flags to the atomic thread_info::flags shouldn't be a big issue since most polling state changes were followed/preceded by a full memory barrier anyway. Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Richard Henderson Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra --- arch/alpha/include/asm/thread_info.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/alpha/include/asm/thread_info.h +++ b/arch/alpha/include/asm/thread_info.h @@ -73,12 +73,14 @@ register struct thread_info *__current_t #define TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT 4 /* syscall audit active */ #define TIF_DIE_IF_KERNEL 9 /* dik recursion lock */ #define TIF_MEMDIE 13 /* is terminating due to OOM killer */ +#define TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG 14 /* idle is polling for TIF_NEED_RESCHED */ #define _TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE (1<