A barrier() in a tight loop which waits for something to happen on a remote CPU is a pointless exercise. Replace it with cpu_relax() which allows HT siblings to make progress. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/interrupt.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/include/linux/interrupt.h +++ b/include/linux/interrupt.h @@ -672,7 +672,8 @@ static inline void tasklet_unlock(struct static inline void tasklet_unlock_wait(struct tasklet_struct *t) { - while (test_bit(TASKLET_STATE_RUN, &(t)->state)) { barrier(); } + while (test_bit(TASKLET_STATE_RUN, &t->state)) + cpu_relax(); } #else #define tasklet_trylock(t) 1