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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] possible scheduler deadlock in 2.6.16
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:09:51 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4421307F.8020300@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060322104143.GC30422@krispykreme>

Anton Blanchard wrote:

> One way to solve this is to always take runqueues in cpu id order. To do
> this we add a cpu variable to the runqueue and check it in the
> double runqueue locking functions.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 

You're right. I can't think of a better fix, although we've been trying
to avoid adding cpu to the runqueue structure.

I was going to suggest moving more work into wake_sleeping_dependent
instead, but cores with 4 and more threads now make that less desirable
I suppose.

-- 
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	mingo@elte.hu, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] possible scheduler deadlock in 2.6.16
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:09:51 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4421307F.8020300@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060322104143.GC30422@krispykreme>

Anton Blanchard wrote:

> One way to solve this is to always take runqueues in cpu id order. To do
> this we add a cpu variable to the runqueue and check it in the
> double runqueue locking functions.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 

You're right. I can't think of a better fix, although we've been trying
to avoid adding cpu to the runqueue structure.

I was going to suggest moving more work into wake_sleeping_dependent
instead, but cores with 4 and more threads now make that less desirable
I suppose.

-- 
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com 

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-22 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-22 10:41 [PATCH] possible scheduler deadlock in 2.6.16 Anton Blanchard
2006-03-22 10:41 ` Anton Blanchard
2006-03-22 11:09 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-03-22 11:09   ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-22 12:17   ` Anton Blanchard
2006-03-22 12:17     ` Anton Blanchard
2006-03-22 22:52   ` Peter Williams
2006-03-22 22:52     ` Peter Williams
2006-03-22 13:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-03-22 13:16   ` Ingo Molnar

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