Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/5] sched: Reduce ttwu rq->lock contention

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 19:58 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > +    * Since we've already set TASK_WAKING this task's CPU cannot
> > > +    * change from under us.
> > 
> > I think it can. Yes, we've set TASK_WAKING. But, at least the task
> > itself can change its state back to TASK_RUNNING without calling
> > schedule. Say, __wait_event()-like code.
> 
> Oh crud, you're right, that's going to make all this cmpxchg stuff lots
> more interesting :/ 

Hrmph, we can add a task_is_waking() test to the rq->lock in schedule(),
like we have for __task_rq_lock():

  local_irq_save(flags);
again:
  while (task_is_waking(current))
	cpu_relax();
  raw_spin_lock(rq->lock);
  if (task_is_waking(current)) {
	raw_spin_unlock(rq->lock);
	goto again;
  }


But that's not particularly pretty...