Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] sched: make double-lock-balance fair

[Ralf Baechle]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 01:07:04PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > BTW. I wonder about other architectures that are of interest to -rt? Like
> > mips or arm perhaps... Any plans to implement ticket locks on those, or
> > do they not tend to be used in SMP configurations on -rt yte?
> 
> I think both are starting to show more and more SMP machines, so yes,
> eventually we'll want ticket locks for them too.
> 
> That said, I'm not aware of anyone working on it - I suppose we could
> poke the regular arch maintainers.. Ralf, Russell ?

I looked into this a bit and we definately need it.  One large MIPS user
already had converted his kernel to ticket locks due to an excessive
number of cacheline bounces having been observed.

  Ralf
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