Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Aug 2013 10:34:31 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/8] rcu: eliminate deadlock for rcu read site |
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On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 22:23:09 +0800 Lai Jiangshan <eag0628@gmail.com> wrote:
> > By making it a irq-safe lock, we need to disable interrupts every time > > it is taken, which means the entire pi-chain walk in > > rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain() will pretty much be with interrupts > > disabled. > > > I didn't catch your meaning. > rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain() is called without wait_lock held. > current C.S. of wait_lock are really short. >
There is quite a bit of overhead to enable and disable interrupts. If we are doing this in a very fast path, it's going to slow down -rt even more.
It would be really nice to avoid making wait_lock be irq safe.
-- Steve
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