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Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] rtmutex: Deboost before waking up the top waiter

From Xunlei Pang <xpang@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] rtmutex: Deboost before waking up the top waiter
Date 2016-04-18 11:50 +0200
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On 2016/04/18 at 17:02, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2016, Xunlei Pang wrote:
>> On 2016/04/18 at 16:23, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Xunlei Pang wrote:
>>>> We should deboost before waking the high-prio task such that
>>>> we don't run two tasks with the 'same' priority.
>>> No. This is fundamentaly broken.
>>>  
>>> T1 (prio 0)	lock(X)
>>>
>>> -->	 	preemption
>>>
>>> T2 (prio 10)	lock(X)
>>>    	 	boost(T1)
>>> 		schedule()
>>>
>>> T1 (prio 10)	unlock(X)
>> We add a preempt_disable() before deboost to avoid the breakage,
>> there's also some comment about this in the patch's code.
> So the changelog is useless and misleading. Neither does it explain what's
> wrong with having two tasks with the same priority in running state.

Sorry about that, will improve it.

Regards,
Xunlei

>
> Thanks,
>
> 	tglx
>
>
>
>

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Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] rtmutex: Deboost before waking up the top  waiter Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-04-18 10:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] rtmutex: Deboost before waking up the top waiter Xunlei Pang <xpang@redhat.com> - 2016-04-18 10:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] rtmutex: Deboost before waking up the top  waiter Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-04-18 11:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] rtmutex: Deboost before waking up the top waiter Xunlei Pang <xpang@redhat.com> - 2016-04-18 11:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] rtmutex: Deboost before waking up the top waiter Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-04-20 14:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] rtmutex: Deboost before waking up the top  waiter Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-04-20 14:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] rtmutex: Deboost before waking up the top waiter Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-04-20 15:20 +0200

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