From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752536Ab0LQDGV (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:06:21 -0500 Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:33588 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752324Ab0LQDGU convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:06:20 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=jM/7rZhQ6AwHvgr0RGWTzbuKtewtNm9PfS7NhorjfFhw4xJMUESJYgqereCtWagpTD i3TlNSOpOqv4vrauW+eZrAKYLW7UVu2YCV5mKygDkp95/oNreuJL53n/AazLK48fJLSv 7n0YA9dz23fqKfXQsLZF3R2ftXQbzSG9Jz1wc= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1292531553.2708.89.camel@laptop> References: <20101216145602.899838254@chello.nl> <20101216150920.968046926@chello.nl> <20101216184229.GA15889@redhat.com> <1292525893.2708.50.camel@laptop> <1292526220.2708.55.camel@laptop> <1292528874.2708.85.camel@laptop> <1292531553.2708.89.camel@laptop> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:06:19 +0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: akySgcNiJD0b6DJx4fRdps-R4iM Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/5] sched: Reduce ttwu rq->lock contention From: "Yan, Zheng" To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Oleg Nesterov , Chris Mason , Frank Rowand , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Mike Galbraith , Paul Turner , Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > @@ -953,7 +955,7 @@ static inline struct rq *__task_rq_lock( >        for (;;) { >                rq = task_rq(p); >                raw_spin_lock(&rq->lock); > -               if (likely(rq == task_rq(p))) > +               if (likely(rq == task_rq(p)) && !task_is_waking(p)) >                        return rq; >                raw_spin_unlock(&rq->lock); >        } > @@ -973,7 +975,7 @@ static struct rq *task_rq_lock(struct ta >                local_irq_save(*flags); >                rq = task_rq(p); >                raw_spin_lock(&rq->lock); > -               if (likely(rq == task_rq(p))) > +               if (likely(rq == task_rq(p)) && !task_is_waking(p)) >                        return rq; >                raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rq->lock, *flags); >        } Looks like nothing prevents ttwu() from changing task's CPU while some one else is holding task_rq_lock(). Is this OK? Thanks Yan, Zheng