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Commit 200b1874 authored by Nicolai Hähnle's avatar Nicolai Hähnle Committed by Ingo Molnar
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locking/ww_mutex: Notify waiters that have to back off while adding tasks to wait list



While adding our task as a waiter, detect if another task should back off
because of us.

With this patch, we establish the invariant that the wait list contains
at most one (sleeping) waiter with ww_ctx->acquired > 0, and this waiter
will be the first waiter with a context.

Since only waiters with ww_ctx->acquired > 0 have to back off, this allows
us to be much more economical with wakeups.

Signed-off-by: default avatarNicolai Hähnle <Nicolai.Haehnle@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <dev@mblankhorst.nl>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482346000-9927-8-git-send-email-nhaehnle@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 6baa5c60
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