[patch] BFS 421: remove global runqueue lock in running tick

[Hillf Danton]

We simply deschedule current, with no bother grabbing global lock, since IPI,
if triggered by preempt, could not change our result, like no schedule when
preempt enabled.

	preempt_enable_no_resched();
	if (unlikely(need_resched()))
		goto need_resched;


--- a/kernel/sched/bfs.c	Wed Jun  6 21:02:50 2012
+++ b/kernel/sched/bfs.c	Fri Jun  8 21:17:24 2012
@@ -2784,11 +2784,13 @@ static void task_running_tick(struct rq
 	} else if (rq->rq_time_slice >= RESCHED_US)
 			return;

-	/* p->time_slice < RESCHED_US. We only modify task_struct under grq lock */
+	/*
+	 * With irq disabled, current is descheduled without global lock
+	 * held and IPI cared.
+	 */
 	p = rq->curr;
-	grq_lock();
-	set_tsk_need_resched(p);
-	grq_unlock();
+	if (!test_tsk_need_resched(p))
+		set_tsk_need_resched(p);
 }


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