> > - Request to borrow timeslice is not guranteed to be honored. > - If the task is allowed to borrow, kernel will inform the task > of this. When this happens, task must yield the processor as soon > as it completes its critical section. > - If the task fails to yield processor after being allowed to > borrow, it is penalized by forcing it to skip its next time slot > by the scheduler. > - Task is charged additional time for the borrowed timeslice as > accumulated run time. This pushes it further down in consideration > for the next task to run. >
Is there a way for us to identify if the lock is contended? Because it may not be prudent to allow a task to borrow timeslice for a lock which isnt contended. -- Thanks and Regards Srikar Dronamraju -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
