On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 20:48 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 13:42 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > cpu_chill_on_lock(). > > I think what you were hinting at is: > > spin_lock(&lock); > spin_unlock(&lock); Exactly. > > which is the rt_mutex implementation of spin_unlock_wait(). No new > function needed for that. Yes but... > > Trouble is that you cannot use inode->i_lock as explained.. Right! What I was hinting at was that the spin_lock() can boost, but it could also fail if there was a deadlock detected, and it wouldn't cause the system to hang. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
