Re: [Patch 2/3] fast VMA recycling

[Andi Kleen]

On Thursday 23 February 2006 12:22, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >> see voluntary preempt.
> > 
> > Only when its time slice is used up 
> 
> or if some other thread gets a higher dynamic prio
> > but then it would sleep a bit later 
> > in user space. 
> 
> ... but that is without the semaphore held! (and that is the entire 
> point of this patch, move the sleep moments to outside the lock holding 
> area as much as possible, to reduce lock hold times)

And you verified this happens often in your workload?

Anyways, how about adding a down_no_preempt() or similar instead
that won't voluntarily preempt?

-Andi
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