linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] scheduler fixes

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Message-ID: <20080511130226.GR19219@parisc-linux.org>
Date:	Sun, 11 May 2008 07:02:27 -0600
From:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@...aler.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [git pull] scheduler fixes

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 02:52:16PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
> 
> > > So I deem my fix "proven by thought experiment".  I haven't tried 
> > > booting it or anything.
> > 
> > i actually have two fixes, made earlier today. The 'fix3' one has been 
> > confirmed by Sven to fix the regression - but i think we need the 'fix
> > #2' one below as well to make it complete.
> 
> i just combined them into a single fix, see below.

That's mangled ... why did you move __up around?

>  	list_del(&waiter.list);
> +	if (unlikely(!list_empty(&sem->wait_list)) && sem->count)
> +		__up(sem);

That's an unnecessary wakeup compared to my patch.

>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> @@ -254,9 +264,10 @@ static noinline int __sched __down_timeo
>  	return __down_common(sem, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, jiffies);
>  }
>  
> -static noinline void __sched __up(struct semaphore *sem)
> -{
> -	struct semaphore_waiter *waiter = list_first_entry(&sem->wait_list,
> -						struct semaphore_waiter, list);
> -	wake_up_process(waiter->task);
> -}
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Rotate sleepers - to make sure all of them get woken in case
> +	 * of parallel up()s:
> +	 */
> +	list_move_tail(&waiter->list, &sem->wait_list);

Seems like extra cache line dirtying for no real gain over my solution.

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