From baa8c1102f0cd86e69c1497d61d2ee177e663663 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:10:09 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] sched: Add a lock break for PREEMPT=y Since load-balancing can hold rq->locks for quite a long while, allow breaking out early when there is lock contention. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sched_fair.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/sched_fair.c b/kernel/sched_fair.c index 93fccba..65d0820 100644 --- a/kernel/sched_fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched_fair.c @@ -2065,6 +2065,10 @@ static int move_tasks(struct rq *this_rq, int this_cpu, struct rq *busiest, */ if (idle == CPU_NEWLY_IDLE && this_rq->nr_running) break; + + if (raw_spin_is_contended(&this_rq->lock) || + raw_spin_is_contended(&busiest->lock)) + break; #endif } while (load_moved && max_load_move > total_load_moved); -- 2.7.4