Re: [patch] queued spinlocks (i386)

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>]

I am sorry for being completely off-topic, but I've been wondering for the
long time...

What if we replace raw_spinlock_t.slock with "struct task_struct *owner" ?

	void _spin_lock(spinlock_t *lock)
	{
		struct task_struct *owner;

		for (;;) {
			preempt_disable();
			if (likely(_raw_spin_trylock(lock)))
				break;
			preempt_enable();

			while (!spin_can_lock(lock)) {
				rcu_read_lock();
				owner = lock->owner;
				if (owner && current->prio < owner->prio &&
				    !test_tsk_thread_flag(owner, TIF_NEED_RESCHED))
					set_tsk_thread_flag(owner, TIF_NEED_RESCHED);
				rcu_read_unlock();
				cpu_relax();
			}
		}

		lock->owner = current;
	}

	void _spin_unlock(spinlock_t *lock)
	{
		lock->owner = NULL;
		_raw_spin_unlock(lock);
		preempt_enable();
	}

Now we don't need need_lockbreak(lock), need_resched() is enough, and we take
->prio into consideration.

Makes sense? Or stupid?

Oleg.