Re: [PATCH 5/5 v0.6] sched/umcg: add Documentation/userspace-api/umcg.txt

[Thierry Delisle <tdelisle@uwaterloo.ca>]

 > Hi Thierry,
 >
 > sorry for the delayed reply - I'm finally going through the
 > documentation patches in preparation for the upcoming next version
 > patchset mail-out.

No problem.

 > The documentation here outlines what sys_umcg_wait does, and it does
 > put the current task to sleep without context switching if next_tid is
 > zero. The question of whether this behavior is or is not appropriate
 > for a worker wishing to yield/park itself is at a "policy" level, if
 > you wish, and this "policy" level is described in "state transitions"
 > section later in the document. sys_umcg_wait() does not enforce this
 > "policy" directly, in order to make it simpler and easier to describe
 > and reason about.

Just to be clear, sys_umcg_wait supports an operation that, when called 
from
a worker, puts the worker to sleep without triggering block detection
or context-switching back to the server?



 >> With that said, I'm a little confused by the usage of "yields" in that
 >> example. I would expect workers yielding to behave like kernel threads
 >> calling sched_yield(), i.e., context switch to the server but also be
 >> immediately added to the idle_workers_ptr.
 >
 > I'm not a fan of arguing about how to name things. If the maintainers
 > ask me to rename wait/wake to park/unpark, I'll do that.

I understand the sentiment, and I'm perfectly happy with the use of 
wait/wake.
I was exclusively referring to this one use of "yield" in the 
documentation.