locking/rtmutex: Implement lockless top-waiter wakeup
authorDavidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Tue, 19 May 2015 17:24:55 +0000 (10:24 -0700)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Thu, 18 Jun 2015 20:27:46 +0000 (22:27 +0200)
commit45ab4effc3bee6f8a5cb05652b7bb895ec5b6a7a
tree330e0f345b3f5e485e0e1ba6926c9d2dd3c5350e
parent6f9aad0bc37286c0441b57f0ba8cffee50715426
locking/rtmutex: Implement lockless top-waiter wakeup

Mark the task for later wakeup after the wait_lock has been released.
This way, once the next task is awoken, it will have a better chance
to of finding the wait_lock free when continuing executing in
__rt_mutex_slowlock() when trying to acquire the rtmutex, calling
try_to_take_rt_mutex(). Upon contended scenarios, other tasks attempting
take the lock may acquire it first, right after the wait_lock is released,
but (a) this can also occur with the current code, as it relies on the
spinlock fairness, and (b) we are dealing with the top-waiter anyway,
so it will always take the lock next.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1432056298-18738-2-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
kernel/locking/rtmutex.c