On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 06:18:56AM +, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
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> On 18/01/2017 16:53, Chris Wilson wrote:
> >We always try to do an unlocked wait before resorting to having a
> >blocking wait under the mutex - so we very rarely have to sleep under
> >the struct_mutex. However, when we do we wan
On 18/01/2017 16:53, Chris Wilson wrote:
We always try to do an unlocked wait before resorting to having a
blocking wait under the mutex - so we very rarely have to sleep under
the struct_mutex. However, when we do we want that wait to be as short
as possible as the struct_mutex is our BKL that
We always try to do an unlocked wait before resorting to having a
blocking wait under the mutex - so we very rarely have to sleep under
the struct_mutex. However, when we do we want that wait to be as short
as possible as the struct_mutex is our BKL that will stall the driver and
all clients.
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