On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 20:08:37 +0200 (CEST) Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Perhaps it could simply do ->owner = RT_MUTEX_HAS_WAITERS to make this more > > clear... > > Good point. The new owner can cleanup the mess. > I thought about this too. It should work with the added overhead that every time we go into the unlock slow path, we guarantee that the next lock will go into the lock slowpath. As long as the new acquired lock does a fast unlock, then we get out of this spiral. -- Steve -- 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/
