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

From: Davidlohr Bueso
Date: Sat Oct 29 2016 - 12:53:03 EST


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();
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2.4.11