[PATCH v6 02/11] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq_lock()

Davidlohr Bueso dave at stgolabs.net
Sun Oct 30 03:52:16 AEDT 2016


On Fri, 28 Oct 2016, Pan Xinhui wrote:
> 		/*
> 		 * If we need to reschedule bail... so we can block.
>+		 * Use vcpu_is_preempted to detech lock holder preemption issue
                                            ^^ detect
>+		 * and break. 

Could you please remove the rest of this comment? Its just noise to point out
that vcpu_is_preempted is a macro defined by arch/false. This is standard protocol
in the kernel.

Same goes for all locks you change with this.

Thanks,
Davidlohr

>                * vcpu_is_preempted is a macro defined by false if
>+		 * arch does not support vcpu preempted check,
> 		 */
>-		if (need_resched())
>+		if (need_resched() || vcpu_is_preempted(node_cpu(node->prev)))
> 			goto unqueue;
>
> 		cpu_relax_lowlatency();
>-- 
>2.4.11
>


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