linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] sched: Provide delayed wakeup list

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Date:	Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:12:23 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@...ux.intel.com>,
	Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] sched: Provide delayed wakeup list

On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 16:08 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> I dont understand why you make a get_task_struct() before the cmpxchg()
> and rollback. We certainly must hold a lock/mutex before calling
> wake_list_add()
> 
> It could be :
> 
> {
>         if (cmpxchg(&n->next, NULL, head->first))
>                 return;
>          
>         get_task_struct(p);
>         head->first = n;
> } 

You're quite right. No idea why I wrote it like that..
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