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SubjectRe: wait_for_completion_timeout() spurious failure under heavy load?
Roland Dreier napsal(a):
> It seems that the current implementaton of wait_for_completion_timeout()
> has a small problem under very high load for the common pattern:
>
> if (!wait_for_completion_timeout(&done, timeout))
> /* handle failure */
>
> because the implementation very roughly does (lots of code deleted to
> show the basic flow):
>
> static inline long __sched
> do_wait_for_common(struct completion *x, long timeout, int state)
> {
> if (x->done)
> return timeout;
>
> do {
> timeout = schedule_timeout(timeout);
>
> if (!timeout)
> return timeout;
>
> } while (!x->done);
>
> return timeout;
> }
>
> so if the system is very busy and x->done is not set when
> do_wait_for_common() is entered, it is possible that the first call to
> schedule_timeout() returns 0 because the task doing wait_for_completion

Sorry, but how can schedule_timeout return 0 before the timeout expiration?


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