On 04/09/2015 03:57 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 10:55:48PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
@@ -219,24 +236,30 @@ static void pv_wait_node(struct mcs_spinlock *node)
}
/*
+ * Called after setting next->locked = 1& lock acquired.
+ * Check if the the CPU has been halted. If so, set the _Q_SLOW_VAL flag
+ * and put an entry into the lock hash table to be waken up at unlock time.
*/
-static void pv_kick_node(struct mcs_spinlock *node)
+static void pv_scan_next(struct qspinlock *lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node)
I'm not too sure about that name change..
It is because the function will no longer kick the cpu. So I change the
name to reflect that. I am not good at naming. Please let me know if you
have a better name.
Cheers,
Longman
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