From e4a52bcb9a18142d79e231b6733cabdbf2e67c1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 17:23:54 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] sched: Remove rq->lock from the first half of ttwu() Currently ttwu() does two rq->lock acquisitions, once on the task's old rq, holding it over the p->state fiddling and load-balance pass. Then it drops the old rq->lock to acquire the new rq->lock. By having serialized ttwu(), p->sched_class, p->cpus_allowed with p->pi_lock, we can now drop the whole first rq->lock acquisition. The p->pi_lock serializing concurrent ttwu() calls protects p->state, which we will set to TASK_WAKING to bridge possible p->pi_lock to rq->lock gaps and serialize set_task_cpu() calls against task_rq_lock(). The p->pi_lock serialization of p->sched_class allows us to call scheduling class methods without holding the rq->lock, and the serialization of p->cpus_allowed allows us to do the load-balancing bits without races. Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110405152729.354401150@chello.nl --- Reading git-format-patch failed