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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-09-09 22:27:33 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-09-09 22:27:33 -0700 |
| commit | e548833df83c3554229eff0672900bfe958b45fd (patch) | |
| tree | 85efc4a76dc356593d6d394776aeb845dc580fb6 /kernel/sched.c | |
| parent | cbd9da7be869f676afc204e1a664163778c770bd (diff) | |
| parent | 053d8f6622701f849fda2ca2c9ae596c13599ba9 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
net/mac80211/main.c
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index 41541d79e3c..09b574e7f4d 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -3865,8 +3865,16 @@ int mutex_spin_on_owner(struct mutex *lock, struct thread_info *owner) /* * Owner changed, break to re-assess state. */ - if (lock->owner != owner) + if (lock->owner != owner) { + /* + * If the lock has switched to a different owner, + * we likely have heavy contention. Return 0 to quit + * optimistic spinning and not contend further: + */ + if (lock->owner) + return 0; break; + } /* * Is that owner really running on that cpu? |