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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC] smt nice introduces significant lock contention
Con Kolivas wrote:
> On Friday 02 June 2006 12:28, Con Kolivas wrote:
>
>>Actually looking even further, we only introduced the extra lookup of the
>>next task when we started unlocking the runqueue in schedule(). Since we
>>can get by without locking this_rq in schedule with this approach we can
>>simplify dependent_sleeper even further by doing the dependent sleeper
>>check after we have discovered what next is in schedule and avoid looking
>>it up twice. I'll hack something up to do that soon.
>
>
> Something like this (sorry I couldn't help but keep hacking on it).

Looking pretty good. Nice to acknowledge Chris's idea for
trylocks in your changelog when you submit a final patch.

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