Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.2.9-rt17

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 16:36 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 22:28 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 16:25 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > 
> > > How would this be different than what mainline does? When the lock is
> > > released, it will wake up the other task. 
> > 
> > mainline has ticket locks, the rt-mutex stuff has equal priority lock
> > stealing, waking up the blocked task will take so long our running loop
> > will have re-acquired ->d_lock again before it even gets to trying.
> 
> And we have adaptive mutexes.
> 
> So we wake up the task (now with the higher priority), by the time it
> wakes up, the original task retook the lock. But because of adaptive
> mutexes, as this task takes the lock it notices that the owner is still
> running, and it will spin and not sleep.
> 
> Now when the original task releases the lock again, the other task can
> take it just like it does on mainline.

Now interleave it with a third task of even higher priority that puts
the spinner to sleep.