swait: add idle variants which don't contribute to load average
There are cases where folks are using an interruptible swait when
using kthreads. This is rather confusing given you'd expect
interruptible waits to be -- interruptible, but kthreads are not
interruptible ! The reason for such practice though is to avoid
having these kthreads contribute to the system load average.
When systems are idle some kthreads may spend a lot of time blocking if
using swait_event_timeout(). This would contribute to the system load
average. On systems without preemption this would mean the load average
of an idle system is bumped to 2 instead of 0. On systems with PREEMPT=y
this would mean the load average of an idle system is bumped to 3
instead of 0.
This adds proper API using TASK_IDLE to make such goals explicit and
avoid confusion.
Suggested-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
[ paulmck: No return value from swait_event_idle per Eric's feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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