On Wednesday 14 November 2007 06:22, David Brownell wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 November 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * David Brownell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > I speculate that either the design has changed (without fanfare),
> > > > > or else that stuff is in RT kernels and has not yet gone upstream.
> > > >
> > > > Well whatever. We shouldn't have to resort to caller-side party
> > > > tricks like this to get acceptable performance.
> > >
> > > I'd be happy if, as originally presented, it were possible to just
> > > pass a raw_spinlock_t to spin_lock_irqsave() and friends.
> >
> > that's a spinlock type abstraction of PREEMPT_RT, not of mainline.
Even when you're talking about the -rt tree, I suspect you really
shouldn't be using raw spinlocks, right? I mean, if you have a
timing critical operation, then you should ensure you have priorities
set correctly so that you simply don't get preempted.
By using a raw_spinlock_t, you're saying that you're more important
than anyone else (for the period of the critical section) including
processes which the user has explicitly set to a higher priority.
If you get preempted, then you should be happy, because <standard
RTOS nuclear power plant scenario> didn't occur.
> Any reason that stuff shouldn't move into mainline?
This sort of raw_spinlock_t arms race throughout drivers/ would be
a huge reason not to move it into mainline.
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