On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> Hmm, still wouldn't the spin_on_owner() loopyness and the above need
> that need_resched() check you mentioned to that it can fall into the
> slow path and go to sleep?
Yes, I do think that the outer loop at least should have a test for
need_resched().
Please take all my patches to be pseudo-code. They've neither been
compiled nor tested, and I'm just posting them in the hope that somebody
else will then do things in the direction I think is the proper one ;)
Linus
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