linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] android: binder: Disable preemption while holding the global binder lock

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Date:   Tue, 13 Sep 2016 09:32:59 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
        Riley Andrews <riandrews@...roid.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Todd Kjos <tkjos@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] android: binder: Disable preemption while holding the
 global binder lock

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 08:44:09PM -0700, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:

> A previous attempt to fix this problem, changed the lock to use
> rt_mutex instead of mutex, but this apparently did not work as well as
> this patch. I believe the added overhead was noticeable, and it did
> not work when the preempted thread was in a different cgroup (I don't
> know if this is still the case).

Do you actually have RR/FIFO/DL tasks? Currently PI isn't
defined/implemented for OTHER.

cgroups should be irrelevant, PI is unaware of them.