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authorGregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>2008-12-29 09:39:51 -0500
committerGregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>2008-12-29 09:39:51 -0500
commit8f45e2b516201d1bf681e6026fa5276385def565 (patch)
treeb50d5cc2d6932d1f33f222bdf6052cfa32cddc8c /kernel/sched_rt.c
parent7e96fa5875d4a9be18d74d3ca7b90518d05bc426 (diff)
sched: make double-lock-balance fair
double_lock balance() currently favors logically lower cpus since they often do not have to release their own lock to acquire a second lock. The result is that logically higher cpus can get starved when there is a lot of pressure on the RQs. This can result in higher latencies on higher cpu-ids. This patch makes the algorithm more fair by forcing all paths to have to release both locks before acquiring them again. Since callsites to double_lock_balance already consider it a potential preemption/reschedule point, they have the proper logic to recheck for atomicity violations. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
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