On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:35:22AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote: > Ingo/Peter: is it considered OK to call wake_up while holding a spinlock?
Yes, very much so. Doing a wakeup isn't _that_ expensive. > Could "sleeping spinlocks" affect this at all? (some sample stack traces are > below). Not entirely sure, are you referencing to -rt where me make spinlock_t pi-mutexes? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
