Re: [PATCH] mutex: Report recursive ww_mutex locking early

Chris Wilson
2016-05-30T10:46:17Z

On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 12:27:46PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 11:43:31AM +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> > Patch not applied, SCHED_RR:
>
> ww_mutex isn't RT aware at all; its one of the things I still have on a
> todo list. Should I look harder at finding time for this?

The RT usage in the test is to just try and starve the kernel threads
that may be used behind the atomic modeset - a problem we have
encountered in the past. Afaik, no one is using ww_mutex from RT in the
wild, calling the atomic modeset from the RT was just a shortcut to
having the system fully populated with RT threads. To be more realistic
we should be using a couple of normal modesetting threads vs a set of RT
cpu hogs.

Otoh, i915.ko always draws the ire of rt-linux so ww_mutex is likely to
be in their sights in the near future (when i915.ko completes its
transition to full atomic modesetting).
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre