linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] perf bench: Use condition variables in numa.

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Date:   Wed, 14 Oct 2020 14:27:26 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc:     Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Peng Fan <fanpeng@...ngson.cn>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] perf bench: Use condition variables in numa.

Em Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 06:14:18PM +0200, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 08:39:51AM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> > The pthread_mutex_lock avoids any race on g->nr_tasks_started and
> > g->p.nr_tasks is set up in init() along with all the global state. I
> > don't think there's any race on g->nr_tasks_started and doing a signal
> > for every thread starting will just cause unnecessary wake-ups for the
> > main thread. I think it is better to keep it. I added loops on all the
> > pthread_cond_waits so the code is robust against spurious wake ups.
> 
> ah, I missed that mutex call
> 
> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>

Thanks, applied.

- Arnaldo