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author | Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> | 2015-05-19 10:24:55 -0700 |
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committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2015-06-18 22:27:46 +0200 |
commit | 45ab4effc3bee6f8a5cb05652b7bb895ec5b6a7a (patch) | |
tree | 330e0f345b3f5e485e0e1ba6926c9d2dd3c5350e /tools/usb | |
parent | 6f9aad0bc37286c0441b57f0ba8cffee50715426 (diff) | |
download | linux-45ab4effc3bee6f8a5cb05652b7bb895ec5b6a7a.tar.bz2 |
locking/rtmutex: Implement lockless top-waiter wakeup
Mark the task for later wakeup after the wait_lock has been released.
This way, once the next task is awoken, it will have a better chance
to of finding the wait_lock free when continuing executing in
__rt_mutex_slowlock() when trying to acquire the rtmutex, calling
try_to_take_rt_mutex(). Upon contended scenarios, other tasks attempting
take the lock may acquire it first, right after the wait_lock is released,
but (a) this can also occur with the current code, as it relies on the
spinlock fairness, and (b) we are dealing with the top-waiter anyway,
so it will always take the lock next.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1432056298-18738-2-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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