Re: [patch 1/3] Drop tasklist lock in do_sched_setscheduler

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On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 18:48 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:08:38 -0000
> Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > There is no need to hold tasklist_lock across the setscheduler call, when we
> > pin the task structure with get_task_struct(). Interrupts are disabled in 
> > setscheduler anyway and the permission checks do not need interrupts disabled.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> > 
> >  kernel/sched.c |    4 +++-
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > Index: linux-2.6.17-mm/kernel/sched.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.17-mm.orig/kernel/sched.c	2006-06-22 10:26:11.000000000 +0200
> > +++ linux-2.6.17-mm/kernel/sched.c	2006-06-22 10:26:11.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -4140,8 +4140,10 @@
> >  		read_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
> >  		return -ESRCH;
> >  	}
> > -	retval = sched_setscheduler(p, policy, &lparam);
> > +	get_task_struct(p);
> >  	read_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
> > +	retval = sched_setscheduler(p, policy, &lparam);
> > +	put_task_struct(p);
> >  	return retval;
> >  }
> >  
> 
> Is this optimisation actually related to the rt-mutex patches, or to the
> other two patches?

Yes. We neither want interrupt disabled nor holding tasklist lock when
it comes to the lock chain walk. So its a preperatory patch and a
general optimization.

	tglx


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