locking/rtmutex: Optimize setting task running after being blocked
authorDavidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Mon, 2 Feb 2015 06:16:24 +0000 (22:16 -0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 4 Feb 2015 06:57:42 +0000 (07:57 +0100)
commitafffc6c1805d98e08e778cddb644a666e78cfcfd
tree86ad29607790194934447f45787de73314bd5397
parent73105994c57d06e40a33ab5a716db04e898b4c05
locking/rtmutex: Optimize setting task running after being blocked

We explicitly mark the task running after returning from
a __rt_mutex_slowlock() call, which does the actual sleeping
via wait-wake-trylocking. As such, this patch does two things:

(1) refactors the code so that setting current to TASK_RUNNING
    is done by __rt_mutex_slowlock(), and not by the callers. The
    downside to this is that it becomes a bit unclear when at what
    point we block. As such I've added a comment that the task
    blocks when calling __rt_mutex_slowlock() so readers can figure
    out when it is running again.

(2) relaxes setting current's state through __set_current_state(),
    instead of it's more expensive barrier alternative. There was no
    need for the implied barrier as we're obviously not planning on
    blocking.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422857784.18096.1.camel@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/locking/rtmutex.c