Thread (36 messages) 36 messages, 5 authors, 2008-03-03

Re: [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 2/9] sysctl for runtime-control of lateral mutex stealing

From: Pavel Machek <hidden>
Date: 2008-02-25 21:53:23
Also in: lkml

Hi!
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From: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <redacted>

Add /proc/sys/kernel/lateral_steal, to allow switching on and off
equal-priority mutex stealing between threads.

Signed-off-by: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <redacted>
---

 kernel/rtmutex.c |    7 ++++++-
 kernel/sysctl.c  |   14 ++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/rtmutex.c b/kernel/rtmutex.c
index 6624c66..cd39c26 100644
--- a/kernel/rtmutex.c
+++ b/kernel/rtmutex.c
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@
 
 #include "rtmutex_common.h"
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_RTLOCK_LATERAL_STEAL
+int rtmutex_lateral_steal __read_mostly = 1;
+#endif
+
Ugly..

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 /*
  * lock->owner state tracking:
  *
@@ -321,7 +325,8 @@ static inline int lock_is_stealable(struct task_struct *pendowner, int unfair)
 	if (current->prio > pendowner->prio)
 		return 0;
 
-	if (!unfair && (current->prio == pendowner->prio))
+	if (unlikely(current->prio == pendowner->prio) &&
+	   !(unfair && rtmutex_lateral_steal))
 #endif
But this is even worse, you are creating #ifdef maze here. Can you
simply #define rtmutex_lateral_steal 0 in !CONFIG_RTLOCK_LATERAL_STEAL
and let the optimizer fix this?

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index c913d48..c24c53d 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -175,6 +175,10 @@ extern struct ctl_table inotify_table[];
 int sysctl_legacy_va_layout;
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_RTLOCK_LATERAL_STEAL
+extern int rtmutex_lateral_steal;
+#endif
+
Try checkpatch.
									Pavel
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