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Message-ID: <20140206140435.GU8874@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 15:04:35 +0100 From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> To: Waiman Long <waiman.long@...com> Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@...com>, mingo@...hat.com, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, riel@...hat.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, davidlohr@...com, hpa@...or.com, andi@...stfloor.org, aswin@...com, scott.norton@...com, chegu_vinod@...com Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v2 5/5] mutex: Give spinners a chance to spin_on_owner if need_resched() triggered while queued On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 04:44:34PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote: > I have an alternative way of breaking out of the MCS lock waiting queue when > need_resched() is set. I overload the locked flag to indicate a skipped node > if negative. I'm not quite seeing how it works (then again, I've not really read the patch carefully). Suppose you break out; at that point you get queued and go to sleep. Suppose you got woken up while you MCS entry is still 'pending' and magically win the race and acquire the lock. At that point your MCS entry can be re-used while its still part of the list. Its a fantastically small race window, but I don't see anything that makes it impossible. > I run the patch through the AIM7 high-systime workload on a > 4-socket server and it seemed to run fine. How do people run this AIM7 piece of shit? I let it run for over an hour and it generated exactly 0 numbers, it just sits there eating cpu-time and creating a racket from my pantry. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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