Hi!
> >Lets say time-spent-outside-spinlock == time-spent-in-spinlock and
> >number-of-cpus == 2.
> >
> >1 < 2 , so it should livelock according to you...
>
> There is off-by-one bug in the condition. It should be:
> (time_spent_in_spinlock + time_spent_outside_spinlock) /
> time_spent_in_spinlock < number_of_cpus
>
> ... or if you divide it by time_spent_in_spinlock:
> time_spent_outside_spinlock / time_spent_in_spinlock + 1 < number_of_cpus
>
> >...but afaict this should work okay. Even if spinlocks are very
> >unfair, as long as time-outside and time-inside comes in big chunks,
> >it should work.
> >
> >If you are unlucky, one cpu may stall for a while, but... I see no
> >livelock.
>
> If some rogue threads (and it may not even be intetional) call the same
> syscall stressing the one spinlock all the time, other syscalls needing
> the same spinlock may stall.
Fortunately, they'll unstall with probability of 1... so no, I do not
think this is real problem.
If someone takes semaphore in syscall (we do), same problem may
happen, right...? Without need for 2048 cpus. Maybe semaphores/mutexes
are fair (or mostly fair) these days, but rwlocks may not be or
something.
Pavel
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