Re: [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 5/9] adaptive real-time lock support

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Hi!

> +/*
> + * Adaptive-rtlocks will busywait when possible, and sleep only if
> + * necessary. Note that the busyloop looks racy, and it is....but we do
> + * not care. If we lose any races it simply means that we spin one more
> + * time before seeing that we need to break-out on the next iteration.
> + *
> + * We realize this is a relatively large function to inline, but note that
> + * it is only instantiated 1 or 2 times max, and it makes a measurable
> + * performance different to avoid the call.
> + *
> + * Returns 1 if we should sleep
> + *
> + */
> +static inline int
> +adaptive_wait(struct rt_mutex *lock, struct rt_mutex_waiter *waiter,
> +	      struct adaptive_waiter *adaptive)
> +{
> +	int sleep = 0;
> +
> +	for (;;) {
> +		/*
> +		 * If the task was re-awoken, break out completely so we can
> +		 * reloop through the lock-acquisition code.
> +		 */
> +		if (!waiter->task)
> +			break;
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * We need to break if the owner changed so we can reloop
> +		 * and safely acquire the owner-pointer again with the
> +		 * wait_lock held.
> +		 */
> +		if (adaptive->owner != rt_mutex_owner(lock))
> +			break;
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * If we got here, presumably the lock ownership is still
> +		 * current.  We will use it to our advantage to be able to
> +		 * spin without disabling preemption...
> +		 */
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * .. sleep if the owner is not running..
> +		 */
> +		if (!adaptive->owner->se.on_rq) {
> +			sleep = 1;
> +			break;
> +		}
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * .. or is running on our own cpu (to prevent deadlock)
> +		 */
> +		if (task_cpu(adaptive->owner) == task_cpu(current)) {
> +			sleep = 1;
> +			break;
> +		}
> +
> +		cpu_relax();
> +	}
> +
> +	put_task_struct(adaptive->owner);
> +
> +	return sleep;
> +}
> +

You want to inline this?

> +static inline void
> +prepare_adaptive_wait(struct rt_mutex *lock, struct adaptive_waiter *adaptive)
...
> +#define prepare_adaptive_wait(lock, busy) {}

This is evil. Use empty inline function instead (same for the other
function, there you can maybe get away with it).
									Pavel
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