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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <p_gortmaker@yahoo.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver: ip27-rtc - convert ioctl to unlocked_ioctl
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:28:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080114162857.GC6639@cvg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <478B8D54.7010400@gmail.com>

[Jiri Slaby - Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 05:27:00PM +0100]
> On 01/14/2008 05:07 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>> Yes, process would be stopped, and not *just* stopped but could spend
>> all his cpu time-slice in attempt to get spinlock (espec if set time is
>> much longer than read), but if we use mutex here the process could just
>> sleep instead of trying to get spinlock granted. Am I wrong? Or this is
>> not worth to do it?
>
> I would say no. It'll spin only for nanoseconds there.
>

Thanks a lot Jiri, I'll resend improved patch.

		- Cyrill -

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-14 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-13 20:32 [PATCH] driver: ip27-rtc - convert ioctl to unlocked_ioctl Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-01-13 21:07 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-01-13 21:25   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-01-13 21:22 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-01-13 21:29   ` Jiri Slaby
2008-01-13 21:32     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-01-14  6:38       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-01-14 15:14         ` Jiri Slaby
2008-01-14 15:38           ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-01-14 15:59             ` Jiri Slaby
2008-01-14 16:07               ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-01-14 16:27                 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-01-14 16:28                   ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2008-01-13 23:08 ` Andi Kleen

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