Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262331AbTKIKmN (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Nov 2003 05:42:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262337AbTKIKmN (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Nov 2003 05:42:13 -0500 Received: from dbl.q-ag.de ([80.146.160.66]:47551 "EHLO dbl.q-ag.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262331AbTKIKmI (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Nov 2003 05:42:08 -0500 Message-ID: <3FAE19C3.7060104@colorfullife.com> Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 11:41:07 +0100 From: Manfred Spraul User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031030 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: prepare_wait / finish_wait question References: <3FAE0223.7070402@colorfullife.com> <20031109021943.470fc601.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20031109021943.470fc601.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1802 Lines: 59 Andrew Morton wrote: >Manfred Spraul wrote: > > >>Hi Ingo, >> >>sysv semaphores show the same problem you've fixed for wait queue with >>finish_wait: >> >> > >Was me, actually. > > Ups, sorry. >It would be neater to remove the task from the list _before_ waking it up. >The current code in there is careful to only remove the task if the wakeup >attempt was successful, but I have a feeling that this is unnecessary - the >waiting task will do the right thing. One would need to think about that a >bit more. > > Doesn't work: the woken up thread could be woken up by chance through a signal, and then the task structure could go out of scope while wake_up is still running - oops. Seen on s390 with sysv msg. >>I wrote a patch for sysv sem and on a 4x Pentium 3, 99.9% of the calls >>hit the fast path, but I'm a bit afraid that monitor/mwait could be so >>fast that the fast path is not chosen. >> >> > >Is it not the case that ia32's reschedule IPI is async? If the >architecture's reschedule uses a synchronous IPI then it could indeed be >the case that the woken CPU gets there first. > poll_idle polls the need_resched flag, and next generation pentium 4 cpus will poll the need_resched flag with the MONITOR/MWAIT instructions. We cannot rely on the async IPI. >>I'm thinking about a two-stage algorithm - what's your opinion? >> >> > >Instrumentation on other architectures would be interesting. > > The patch already contains the instrumentation - it only needs testing. -- Manfred - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/