Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] sched: add yield_to function

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Fri Dec 03 2010 - 12:09:34 EST


On 12/03/2010 11:20 AM, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 10:35:25AM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
Do you have suggestions on what I should do to make
this yield_to functionality work?

Keeping in mind the complications of yield_to, I had suggested we do something
suggested below:

http://marc.info/?l=kvm&m=129122645006996&w=2

Essentially yield to other tasks on your own runqueue and when you get to run
again, try reclaiming what you gave up earlier (with a cap on how much one can
feedback this relinquished time). It can be accomplished via a special form of
yield(), available only to in-kernel users, kvm in this case.

I don't see how that is going to help get the lock
released, when the VCPU holding the lock is on another
CPU.

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