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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: steiner@sgi.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 03/13] GRU - dynamic allocation of kernel contexts
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 15:37:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090409153709.96fb4d96.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090406161011.887146000@sgi.com>

On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:08:12 -0500
steiner@sgi.com wrote:

> @@ -803,12 +803,13 @@ again:
>  	}
>  
>  	if (!gts->ts_gru) {
> -		if (!gru_assign_gru_context(gts)) {
> +		if (!gru_assign_gru_context(gts, blade_id)) {
>  			mutex_unlock(&gts->ts_ctxlock);
>  			preempt_enable();

It's strange (but not buggy) to do the operations in this order.

	preempt_enable();
	mutex_unlock(...);

would be more natural.

>  			schedule_timeout(GRU_ASSIGN_DELAY);  /* true hack ZZZ */

afacit the hack doesn't do anything because the caller is still in
state TASK_RUNNING.


> +			blade_id = uv_numa_blade_id();

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-09 22:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-06 16:08 [patch 00/13] GRU - GRU Driver updates steiner
2009-04-06 16:08 ` [patch 01/13] GRU - bug fixes for GRU exception handling steiner
2009-04-06 16:08 ` [patch 02/13] GRU - dump chiplet state steiner
2009-04-09 22:37   ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-10 13:22     ` Jack Steiner
2009-04-06 16:08 ` [patch 03/13] GRU - dynamic allocation of kernel contexts steiner
2009-04-09 22:37   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-04-10 13:24     ` Jack Steiner
2009-04-11  0:22       ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-06 16:08 ` [patch 04/13] GRU - change context load and unload steiner
2009-04-06 16:08 ` [patch 05/13] GRU - support cch_allocate for kernel threads steiner
2009-04-06 16:08 ` [patch 06/13] GRU - change resource assignment " steiner
2009-04-06 16:08 ` [patch 07/13] GRU - support contexts with zero dsrs or cbrs steiner
2009-04-06 16:08 ` [patch 08/13] GRU - fix handling of mesq failures steiner
2009-04-06 16:08 ` [patch 09/13] GRU - check context state on reload steiner
2009-04-06 16:08 ` [patch 10/13] GRU - support instruction completion interrupts steiner
2009-04-06 16:08 ` [patch 11/13] GRU - support for asynchronous gru instructions steiner
2009-04-06 16:08 ` [patch 12/13] GRU - update gru kernel self tests steiner
2009-04-09 22:37   ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-10 13:26     ` Jack Steiner
2009-04-06 16:08 ` [patch 13/13] GRU - update to rev 0.9 of gru spec steiner
2009-04-09 22:37 ` [patch 00/13] GRU - GRU Driver updates Andrew Morton
2009-04-10 12:31   ` Jack Steiner
2009-04-10 20:47     ` Andrew Morton

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