From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
Riley Andrews <riandrews@android.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] android: binder: Disable preemption while holding the global binder lock
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:38:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160914133826.GD5020@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160914071001.GI5008@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 09:10:01AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 12:53:27PM -0700, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
> > Most of the tasks here are not RR/FIFO/DL tasks. I don't see anything
> > in the rtmutex code or documentation that indicates that they don't
> > work for normal tasks. From what I can tell the priority gets boosted
> > in every case. This may not work as well for CFS tasks as for realtime
> > tasks, but it should at least help when there is a large priority
> > difference.
>
> It does something (it used to explicitly ignore OTHER) but its not
> something well defined or usable.
I looked again, and while it updates the ->prio field for OTHER tasks,
that does not seem to cause a change to the actual weight field (which
is derived from ->static_prio).
So it really should not do anything.. as I remebered it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-14 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-08 16:12 [PATCH] android: binder: Disable preemption while holding the global binder lock Todd Kjos
2016-09-08 16:15 ` Todd Kjos
2016-09-08 17:46 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-09-10 16:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-09-10 16:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-09-10 16:37 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-09-10 17:28 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-09-12 15:49 ` Todd Kjos
2016-09-13 3:44 ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2016-09-13 6:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-09-13 19:52 ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2016-09-13 7:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-09-13 19:53 ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2016-09-14 7:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-09-14 7:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-09-14 13:38 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2016-09-14 16:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-09-14 16:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-09-14 16:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-09-17 0:42 ` Todd Kjos
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-09-09 15:17 Todd Kjos
2016-09-09 15:44 ` Greg KH
2016-09-09 17:39 ` Todd Kjos
2016-09-10 11:18 ` Greg KH
2016-09-10 11:25 ` Greg KH
2016-09-10 11:25 ` Greg KH
2016-09-09 16:37 ` kbuild test robot
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