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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-08-25 15:09:58 +0400 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-08-25 15:10:00 +0400 |
| commit | 7de5d895b2020260190db0021de646f3f22f755e (patch) | |
| tree | 51d012f0b76a2ec1bd3b4837690faf1087f37056 /kernel/sched.c | |
| parent | 04fba67163a9e6132614b72b33bb2743bd33ffb3 (diff) | |
| parent | 502adf5778f4151dcba3f64dd6ed322151f3712c (diff) | |
| download | linux-7de5d895b2020260190db0021de646f3f22f755e.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core
Merge reason: pick up perf fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index 41541d79e3c8..09b574e7f4df 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -3865,8 +3865,16 @@ int mutex_spin_on_owner(struct mutex *lock, struct thread_info *owner) /* * Owner changed, break to re-assess state. */ - if (lock->owner != owner) + if (lock->owner != owner) { + /* + * If the lock has switched to a different owner, + * we likely have heavy contention. Return 0 to quit + * optimistic spinning and not contend further: + */ + if (lock->owner) + return 0; break; + } /* * Is that owner really running on that cpu? |