On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 05:36:49PM +0300, Grygorii Strashko wrote: > On 07/26/2016 03:02 PM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > >Hello, > > > >these patches are based on next-20160726. I didn't check yet how latency > >improves by using these patches, but even if the improvment is small, > >it's still a good idea to have them. > > Sry, but how this will affect on -RT? This is not a raw locks, so > they will be converted to rt-mutexes which are sleepable. > Or I've missed smth? They are still locks after all. On -rt I saw for the relevant application: send package | take lock | write pckt to hw | | rcv irq | take lock | schedule drop lock | schedule | | get pckt from hw | drop lock So reducing the time a lock is taken reduces the chances that the lock is contended for another thread which results in extra context switches. Best regards Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html