Re: Kernel WARNING: at net/core/dev.c:1330 __netif_schedule+0x2c/0x98()

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 09:06:51PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:

On Thursday 24 July 2008 20:55, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

quoted

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:

quoted

Hey, something kind of cool (and OT) I've just thought of that we can
do with ticket locks is to take tickets for 2 (or 64K) nested locks,
and then wait for them both (all), so the cost is N*lock + longest spin,
rather than N*lock + N*avg spin.

Isn't this deadlocky?

E.g. one task takes ticket x=1, then other task comes in and takes x=2
and y=1, then first task takes y=2.  Then neither can actually
complete both locks.

Oh duh of course you still need mutual exclusion from the first lock
to order the subsequent :P

So yeah it only works for N > 2 locks, and you have to spin_lock the
first one... so unsuitable for scheduler.

Or sort the locks by address or some such.

							Thanx, Paul
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