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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: nigel@nrg.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH for 2.5] preemptible kernel
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 03:51:11 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m14krR1-001PKbC@mozart> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Apr 2001 14:07:42 MST." <Pine.LNX.4.05.10104011347060.14420-100000@cosmic.nrg.org>

In message <Pine.LNX.4.05.10104011347060.14420-100000@cosmic.nrg.org> you write
:
> > Setting a running task's flags brings races, AFAICT, and checking
> > p->state is NOT sufficient, consider wait_event(): you need p->has_cpu
> > here I think.
> 
> My thought here was that if p->state is anything other than TASK_RUNNING
> or TASK_RUNNING|TASK_PREEMPTED, then that task is already at a
> synchonize point,

Right.  Theoretically possible to set p->state and not sleep, but it's
not a bad assumption.

> > schedule():
> > 	if (!(prev->state & TASK_PREEMPTED) && prev->syncing)
> > 		if (--sync_count == 0) wake_up(&syncing_task);
> 
> Don't forget to reset prev->syncing.

Right.

> I agree with you about wait queues, but didn't use them here because
> of the problem of avoiding deadlock on the runqueue lock, which the
> wait queues also use.

And right again.  Yeah, it has to be done manually.  Ack, can I
retract that Email?

Rusty.
--
Premature optmztion is rt of all evl. --DK

  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-05  7:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-15  1:25 [PATCH for 2.5] preemptible kernel Nigel Gamble
2001-03-17 17:34 ` Pavel Machek
2001-03-19 21:01   ` Nigel Gamble
2001-03-20  8:43 ` Rusty Russell
2001-03-20  9:32   ` Keith Owens
2001-03-21  0:48     ` Nigel Gamble
2001-03-21  1:23       ` Keith Owens
2001-03-21  3:35         ` Nigel Gamble
2001-03-21  8:04           ` george anzinger
2001-03-21  9:04             ` Keith Owens
2001-03-21 14:32             ` Rusty Russell
2001-03-23 20:42               ` Nigel Gamble
2001-03-28 11:47             ` Dipankar Sarma
2001-03-21  9:19           ` Keith Owens
2001-03-21  9:41             ` David S. Miller
2001-03-21 10:05               ` Andrew Morton
2001-03-22  0:20                 ` Nigel Gamble
2001-03-21 10:57               ` george anzinger
2001-03-21 11:30                 ` David S. Miller
2001-03-21 17:07                   ` george anzinger
2001-03-21 18:18               ` Nigel Gamble
2001-03-21 22:25               ` Rusty Russell
2001-03-21 15:46             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-03-28 10:20           ` Dipankar Sarma
2001-03-28 20:51             ` george anzinger
2001-03-29  9:43               ` Dipankar Sarma
2001-03-30  6:32               ` Keith Owens
2001-03-21  0:24   ` Nigel Gamble
2001-03-30  0:26     ` Nigel Gamble
2001-03-30 20:11       ` Rusty Russell
2001-04-01  7:48         ` george anzinger
2001-04-01 21:13           ` Nigel Gamble
2001-04-02 19:56             ` george anzinger
2001-04-04 17:59               ` Rusty Russell
2001-04-01 21:07         ` Nigel Gamble
2001-04-04 17:51           ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2001-03-20 18:25 ` Roger Larsson
2001-03-20 22:06   ` Nigel Gamble
2001-03-20 22:27     ` george anzinger
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-06 23:52 Paul McKenney
2001-04-07  0:45 ` Andi Kleen
2001-04-07  1:25 Paul McKenney
2001-04-07 19:59 ` Rusty Russell

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