Lai Jiangshan's patch reminded me that I promised Nick to remove that extra call overhead in schedule(). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra --- kernel/mutex.c | 4 +++- kernel/sched.c | 12 ++++-------- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/kernel/mutex.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/mutex.c +++ linux-2.6/kernel/mutex.c @@ -248,7 +248,9 @@ __mutex_lock_common(struct mutex *lock, /* didnt get the lock, go to sleep: */ spin_unlock_mutex(&lock->wait_lock, flags); - __schedule(); + preempt_enable_no_resched(); + schedule(); + preempt_disable(); spin_lock_mutex(&lock->wait_lock, flags); } Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched.c +++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c @@ -4763,13 +4763,15 @@ pick_next_task(struct rq *rq) /* * schedule() is the main scheduler function. */ -asmlinkage void __sched __schedule(void) +asmlinkage void __sched schedule(void) { struct task_struct *prev, *next; unsigned long *switch_count; struct rq *rq; int cpu; +need_resched: + preempt_disable(); cpu = smp_processor_id(); rq = cpu_rq(cpu); rcu_qsctr_inc(cpu); @@ -4827,15 +4829,9 @@ need_resched_nonpreemptible: if (unlikely(reacquire_kernel_lock(current) < 0)) goto need_resched_nonpreemptible; -} -asmlinkage void __sched schedule(void) -{ -need_resched: - preempt_disable(); - __schedule(); preempt_enable_no_resched(); - if (unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_NEED_RESCHED))) + if (need_resched()) goto need_resched; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(schedule); -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/