Re: [patch] [sched] yield speedup, 2.5.3-pre5

From: Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Date: Mon Jan 28 2002 - 14:21:56 EST


On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Martin Josefsson wrote:

> > - spin_unlock_irq(&rq->lock);
> > + spin_unlock(&rq->lock);

> I'm not an spinlock expert but shouldn't you use spin_unlock_irq()
> when it was locked with spin_lock_irq() ?

normally yes, but in this case it's an optimization: schedule() will
disable interrupts within a few cycles, so there is no point in enabling
irqs for a short amount of time.

        Ingo

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