On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 08:05:16PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> I think voluntary preempt is generally a good idea, but we should make it optional
> for down() since it can apparently cause bad side effects (like holding
> semaphores/mutexes for too long)
>
> There would be two possible ways:
>
> have default mutex_lock()/down() do a might_sleep()
> with preemption and have a separate variant that doesn't preempt
> or have the default non preempt and a separate variant
> that does preempt.
better remove the stupid cond_resched() from might_sleep which from it's
naming already is a debug thing and add it to those places where it makes
sense.
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