Re: [PATCH RT] kernel/futex: don't deboost too early

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Fri Sep 30 2016 - 12:10:54 EST


On 2016-09-30 12:00:38 [-0400], Steven Rostedt wrote:
> This looks awfully complex. Would something as simple as this work?
>
> What harm can happen by moving the holding of the lock after the
> wakeups for RT?
If the waiter has a higher priority he will get on the CPU and remove
_this_ task. Since the woken up task will access the hb lock
immediately _or_ before going to sleep so it will boost in order to get
the hb lock.
That is way we introduced this delayed wake up in the first place.

Sebastian