Re: [RT PATCH] cputime: remove raw locks introduced by RT patchset

From: Clark Williams
Date: Fri Apr 15 2016 - 09:44:02 EST


On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 09:13:34 +0200
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Frederic's patch made it into 4.5-rc1. What I did yesterday was:
>
> * sched/cputime: Convert vtime_seqlock to seqcount
> * sched/cputime: Clarify vtime symbols and document them
> * Revert "vtime: Split lock and seqcount"
>
> which is what you want, correct?
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Clark Williams <williams@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Sebastian
>

Yes, that's it. I just wanted to get rid of the redundant locking operations and reduce the accounting overhead by a bit.

Thanks!
Clark

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