On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > Caching the rq is an interesting idea. But since the rq struct is local to > sched.c, what would be a good API to do this? Just move the whole "spin_or_schedule()" into sched.c, and you're all done. Yeah, that requires having sched.c know a bit about mutex locking rules, but the data structures are already exported in <linux/mutex.h>, and while _normal_ code should never care or know exactly how it is used, I think the scheduler might as well. Mutexes are clearly very much a scheduling entity, so it's not too much of a break with internal knowledge. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
