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From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, mingo@elte.hu, peterz@infradead.org
Subject: question about blk_schedule_flush_plug
Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 17:05:19 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201105231705.20168.kernel@kolivas.org> (raw)

I was looking at the scheduler changes going into 2.6.39 again and wondered 
about the use of blk_schedule_flush_plug smack in the middle of schedule()

It looks like this:
			if (blk_needs_flush_plug(prev)) {
				raw_spin_unlock(&rq->lock);
				blk_schedule_flush_plug(prev);
				raw_spin_lock(&rq->lock);
			}

Now call me suspicious but to my eyes it looks really dubious unlocking the 
runqueue like that right in the heart of schedule().

Comments?

Thanks,
Con
-- 
-ck

             reply	other threads:[~2011-05-23  7:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-23  7:05 Con Kolivas [this message]
2011-05-23  7:36 ` question about blk_schedule_flush_plug Peter Zijlstra
2011-05-23  7:43 ` Mike Galbraith

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