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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Takuya Yoshikawa <takuya.yoshikawa@gmail.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	avi@redhat.com, mtosatti@redhat.com,
	yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp
Subject: Re: [RFC] sched: make callers check lock contention for cond_resched_lock()
Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 14:29:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1336048150.22523.17.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120503212244.6abbfa8bc3f46a7f7a932bb7@gmail.com>

On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 21:22 +0900, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote:
> Although the real use case is out of this RFC patch, we are now discussing
> a case in which we may hold a spin_lock for long time, ms order, depending
> on workload;  and in that case, other threads -- VCPU threads -- should be
> given higher priority for that problematic lock. 

Firstly, if you can hold a lock that long, it shouldn't be a spinlock,
secondly why isn't TIF_RESCHED being set if its running that long? That
should still make cond_resched_lock() break.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-03 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-03  8:12 [RFC] sched: make callers check lock contention for cond_resched_lock() Takuya Yoshikawa
2012-05-03  8:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-03 12:22   ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2012-05-03 12:29     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2012-05-03 12:47       ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-03 14:11         ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2012-05-03 14:27           ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-03 14:38             ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-03 13:00       ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2012-05-03 15:47         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-10 22:03           ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2012-05-18  7:26             ` Ingo Molnar
2012-05-18 16:10               ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2012-05-04  2:43         ` Michael Wang

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