linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] sched: make double-lock-balance fair

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Message-ID: <48B5428E.40902@novell.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:03:26 -0400
From:	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
CC:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, mingo@...e.hu,
	srostedt@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org, gregory.haskins@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] sched: make double-lock-balance fair

Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:56:15PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:41:08PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>     
>>> Does it make sense to make this _double_lock_balance() thing depend on
>>> that too?
>>>       
>> Hmm, you might have a good point there. Greg?
>>
>> BTW. I wonder about other architectures that are of interest to -rt? Like
>> mips or arm perhaps... Any plans to implement ticket locks on those, or
>> do they not tend to be used in SMP configurations on -rt yte?
>>     
>
> Oh, or maybe I guess again: -rt might be using Greg's generic ticket lock
> implementation?
>   
I never submitted them since yours were better for x86. But I can dust
them off and post

-Greg


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