linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC] reduce runqueue lock contention

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Date:	Sat, 5 Jun 2010 11:37:09 +0200
From:	Stijn Devriendt <highguy@...il.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	axboe@...nel.dk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] reduce runqueue lock contention

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 12:56 +0200, Stijn Devriendt wrote:
>
>> The issue I want to tackle is waking up processes when others go to sleep.
>> This means try_to_wake_up() from inside the runqueue lock.
>
>
> Tejun did something for that:
>
>  http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/13/136
>
>
>

The difference with what I have is that Tejun's threads are guaranteed
to be local
and on the same CPU/runqueue avoiding runqueue deadlocks. My code can be
used to wake up any thread as I basically defer waking up untill after
the runqueue
lock is released.
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