Thread (19 messages) 19 messages, 5 authors, 2016-10-30

Re: [PATCH v6 02/11] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq_lock()

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From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Date: 2016-10-29 16:52:43
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On Fri, 28 Oct 2016, Pan Xinhui wrote:
		/*
		 * If we need to reschedule bail... so we can block.
+		 * Use vcpu_is_preempted to detech lock holder preemption issue
                                           ^^ detect
+		 * and break.
Could you please remove the rest of this comment? Its just noise to point out
that vcpu_is_preempted is a macro defined by arch/false. This is standard protocol
in the kernel.

Same goes for all locks you change with this.

Thanks,
Davidlohr
               * vcpu_is_preempted is a macro defined by false if
+		 * arch does not support vcpu preempted check,
		 */
-		if (need_resched())
+		if (need_resched() || vcpu_is_preempted(node_cpu(node->prev)))
			goto unqueue;

		cpu_relax_lowlatency();
-- 
2.4.11
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