On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> If you want to notify another CPU that you want the spinlock, then you
> need to set the "flag" variable _outside_ of the spinlock.
>
> Spinlocks are not fair, not by a long shot. They never have been, and they
> never will. Fairness would be extremely expensive indeed.
That reminds me: ought cond_resched_lock to be doing something more?
int cond_resched_lock(spinlock_t *lock)
{
int ret = 0;
if (need_lockbreak(lock)) {
spin_unlock(lock);
cpu_relax();
ret = 1;
spin_lock(lock);
}
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