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Linus Torvalds 8e3e076c5a BKL: revert back to the old spinlock implementation 
The generic semaphore rewrite had a huge performance regression on AIM7
(and potentially other BKL-heavy benchmarks) because the generic
semaphores had been rewritten to be simple to understand and fair.  The
latter, in particular, turns a semaphore-based BKL implementation into a
mess of scheduling.

The attempt to fix the performance regression failed miserably (see the
previous commit 00b41ec261 'Revert
"semaphore: fix"'), and so for now the simple and sane approach is to
instead just go back to the old spinlock-based BKL implementation that
never had any issues like this.

This patch also has the advantage of being reported to fix the
regression completely according to Yanmin Zhang, unlike the semaphore
hack which still left a couple percentage point regression.

As a spinlock, the BKL obviously has the potential to be a latency
issue, but it's not really any different from any other spinlock in that
respect.  We do want to get rid of the BKL asap, but that has been the
plan for several years.

These days, the biggest users are in the tty layer (open/release in
particular) and Alan holds out some hope:

  "tty release is probably a few months away from getting cured - I'm
   afraid it will almost certainly be the very last user of the BKL in
   tty to get fixed as it depends on everything else being sanely locked."

so while we're not there yet, we do have a plan of action.

Tested-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-10 20:58:02 -07:00
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irq genirq: reenable a nobody cared disabled irq when a new driver arrives 2008-05-02 13:40:34 +02:00
power Merge branches 'release', 'acpica', 'bugzilla-10224', 'bugzilla-9772', 'bugzilla-9916', 'ec', 'eeepc', 'idle', 'misc', 'pm-legacy', 'sysfs-links-2.6.26', 'thermal', 'thinkpad' and 'video' into release 2008-04-30 13:58:00 -04:00
time clocksource: allow read access to available/current_clocksource 2008-05-03 18:11:48 +02:00
.gitignore Update kernel/.gitignore with new auto-generated files 2008-02-09 23:27:01 -08:00
acct.c bsd_acct: using task_struct->tgid is not right in pid-namespaces 2008-03-24 19:22:20 -07:00
audit_tree.c Introduce path_put() 2008-02-14 21:13:33 -08:00
audit.c [patch 2/2] Use find_task_by_vpid in audit code 2008-04-28 06:28:30 -04:00
audit.h [PATCH 1/2] audit: move extern declarations to audit.h 2008-04-28 06:28:04 -04:00
auditfilter.c Merge branch 'audit.b50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current 2008-04-29 11:41:22 -07:00
auditsc.c [PATCH] new predicate - AUDIT_FILETYPE 2008-04-28 06:28:37 -04:00
backtracetest.c x86: add a simple backtrace test module 2008-01-30 13:33:08 +01:00
bounds.c Add kbuild.h that contains common definitions for kbuild users 2008-04-29 08:06:29 -07:00
capability.c Add 64-bit capability support to the kernel 2008-02-05 09:44:20 -08:00
cgroup_debug.c CGroup API files: move "releasable" to cgroup_debug subsystem 2008-04-29 08:06:09 -07:00
cgroup.c mm: bdi: add separate writeback accounting capability 2008-04-30 08:29:50 -07:00
compat.c ntp: support for TAI 2008-05-01 08:03:59 -07:00
configs.c kernel: use non-racy method for proc entries creation 2008-04-29 08:06:22 -07:00
cpu.c kernel: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences 2008-04-30 08:29:54 -07:00
cpuset.c Fix cpuset sched_relax_domain_level control file 2008-05-08 10:46:56 -07:00
delayacct.c Add scaled time to taskstats based process accounting 2007-10-18 14:37:28 -07:00
dma.c kernel: use non-racy method for proc entries creation 2008-04-29 08:06:22 -07:00
exec_domain.c whitespace fixes: execution domains 2007-10-18 14:37:26 -07:00
exit.c [PATCH] split linux/file.h 2008-05-01 13:08:16 -04:00
extable.c module: Don't report discarded init pages as kernel text. 2008-01-29 17:13:18 +11:00
fork.c [PATCH] split linux/file.h 2008-05-01 13:08:16 -04:00
futex_compat.c futex_compat __user annotation 2008-03-30 14:18:41 -07:00
futex.c Removal of FUTEX_FD 2008-05-05 08:18:45 -07:00
hrtimer.c hrtimer: remove duplicate helper function 2008-05-03 18:11:48 +02:00
itimer.c ITIMER_REAL: convert to use struct pid 2008-02-08 09:22:29 -08:00
kallsyms.c kernel: use non-racy method for proc entries creation 2008-04-29 08:06:22 -07:00
Kconfig.hz sched: high-res preemption tick 2008-01-25 21:08:29 +01:00
Kconfig.preempt rcu: move PREEMPT_RCU config option back under PREEMPT 2008-03-10 18:01:20 -07:00
kexec.c kexec: make extended crashkernel= syntax less confusing 2008-05-01 08:04:00 -07:00
kfifo.c is_power_of_2: kernel/kfifo.c 2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
kgdb.c kgdb: fix signedness mixmatches, add statics, add declaration to header 2008-05-05 07:13:21 -05:00
kmod.c [PATCH] split linux/file.h 2008-05-01 13:08:16 -04:00
kprobes.c kprobes: add (un)register_jprobes for batch registration 2008-04-28 08:58:32 -07:00
ksysfs.c Kobject: convert remaining kobject_unregister() to kobject_put() 2008-01-24 20:40:40 -08:00
kthread.c Deprecate find_task_by_pid() 2008-04-30 08:29:48 -07:00
latencytop.c kernel: use non-racy method for proc entries creation 2008-04-29 08:06:22 -07:00
lockdep_internals.h
lockdep_proc.c kernel: use non-racy method for proc entries creation 2008-04-29 08:06:22 -07:00
lockdep.c Subject: lockdep: include all lock classes in all_lock_classes 2008-02-25 23:03:02 +01:00
Makefile sched: add optional support for CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 2008-05-05 23:56:18 +02:00
marker.c make marker_debug static 2008-04-30 08:29:49 -07:00
module.c module: don't ignore vermagic string if module doesn't have modversions 2008-05-09 07:45:18 -07:00
mutex-debug.c kernel: remove fastcall in kernel/* 2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c kernel: remove fastcall in kernel/* 2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
mutex.h
notifier.c ipc: re-enable msgmni automatic recomputing msgmni if set to negative 2008-04-29 08:06:13 -07:00
ns_cgroup.c cgroups: kernel/ns_cgroup.c should #include <linux/nsproxy.h> 2008-04-29 08:06:07 -07:00
nsproxy.c ipc: sysvsem: refuse clone(CLONE_SYSVSEM|CLONE_NEWIPC) 2008-04-29 08:06:14 -07:00
panic.c Taint kernel after WARN_ON(condition) 2008-04-29 08:05:59 -07:00
params.c Add new string functions strict_strto* and convert kernel params to use them 2008-02-08 09:22:41 -08:00
pid_namespace.c pidns: make pid->level and pid_ns->level unsigned 2008-04-30 08:29:49 -07:00
pid.c pids: introduce change_pid() helper 2008-04-30 08:29:48 -07:00
pm_qos_params.c pm qos infrastructure and interface 2008-02-05 09:44:22 -08:00
posix-cpu-timers.c remove div_long_long_rem 2008-05-01 08:03:58 -07:00
posix-timers.c signals: join send_sigqueue() with send_group_sigqueue() 2008-04-30 08:29:36 -07:00
printk.c printk: don't read beyond string arguments' terminating zero 2008-04-30 08:29:52 -07:00
profile.c kernel: use non-racy method for proc entries creation 2008-04-29 08:06:22 -07:00
ptrace.c make generic sys_ptrace unconditional 2008-05-01 10:21:54 -07:00
rcuclassic.c Preempt-RCU: implementation 2008-01-25 21:08:24 +01:00
rcupdate.c rcupdate: fix comment 2008-02-13 16:21:18 -08:00
rcupreempt_trace.c Preempt-RCU: implementation 2008-01-25 21:08:24 +01:00
rcupreempt.c generic: reduce stack pressure in sched_affinity 2008-04-19 19:44:59 +02:00
rcutorture.c kernel: explicitly include required header files under kernel/ 2008-04-29 08:06:04 -07:00
relay.c Revert "relay: fix splice problem" 2008-05-08 14:06:19 +02:00
res_counter.c memcgroup: add the max_usage member on the res_counter 2008-04-29 08:06:10 -07:00
resource.c kernel: use non-racy method for proc entries creation 2008-04-29 08:06:22 -07:00
rtmutex_common.h Don't operate with pid_t in rtmutex tester 2008-02-08 09:22:41 -08:00
rtmutex-debug.c Don't operate with pid_t in rtmutex tester 2008-02-08 09:22:41 -08:00
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c Driver core: change sysdev classes to use dynamic kobject names 2008-01-24 20:40:40 -08:00
rtmutex.c hrtimer: more hrtimer_init_sleeper() fallout. 2008-02-13 15:45:36 +01:00
rtmutex.h
rwsem.c sched: mark rwsem functions as __sched for wchan/profiling 2007-12-18 15:21:13 +01:00
sched_clock.c sched: add optional support for CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 2008-05-05 23:56:18 +02:00
sched_debug.c sched: add optional support for CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK 2008-05-05 23:56:18 +02:00
sched_fair.c sched: fix weight calculations 2008-05-08 17:00:42 +02:00
sched_features.h sched: /debug/sched_features 2008-04-19 19:45:00 +02:00
sched_idletask.c sched: make rt_sched_class, idle_sched_class static 2008-05-05 23:56:17 +02:00
sched_rt.c sched: fix RT task-wakeup logic 2008-05-05 23:56:18 +02:00
sched_stats.h cpumask: use new cpus_scnprintf function 2008-04-19 19:44:59 +02:00
sched.c BKL: revert back to the old spinlock implementation 2008-05-10 20:58:02 -07:00
seccomp.c make seccomp zerocost in schedule 2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
semaphore.c Revert "semaphore: fix" 2008-05-10 20:43:22 -07:00
signal.c signals: add set_restore_sigmask 2008-04-30 08:29:37 -07:00
softirq.c Fix cpu hotplug problem in softirq code 2008-05-01 08:03:58 -07:00
softlockup.c softlockup: fix task state setting 2008-02-29 18:46:53 +01:00
spinlock.c spinlock: lockbreak cleanup 2008-01-30 13:31:20 +01:00
srcu.c make srcu_readers_active() static 2008-02-06 10:41:02 -08:00
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/juhl/trivial 2008-04-21 16:36:46 -07:00
sys_ni.c timerfd: new timerfd API 2008-02-05 09:44:07 -08:00
sys.c pids: sys_getpgid: fix unsafe *pid usage, s/tasklist/rcu/ 2008-04-30 08:29:49 -07:00
sysctl_check.c constify tables in kernel/sysctl_check.c 2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
sysctl.c sysctl: add the ->permissions callback on the ctl_table_root 2008-04-29 08:06:23 -07:00
taskstats.c Use find_task_by_vpid in taskstats 2008-04-30 08:29:48 -07:00
test_kprobes.c kprobes: kretprobe user entry-handler 2008-02-06 10:41:11 -08:00
time.c Make constants in kernel/timeconst.h fixed 64 bits 2008-05-02 16:18:42 -07:00
timeconst.pl Make constants in kernel/timeconst.h fixed 64 bits 2008-05-02 16:18:42 -07:00
timer.c debugobjects: add timer specific object debugging code 2008-04-30 08:29:53 -07:00
tsacct.c Add scaled time to taskstats based process accounting 2007-10-18 14:37:28 -07:00
uid16.c asmlinkage_protect replaces prevent_tail_call 2008-04-10 17:28:26 -07:00
user_namespace.c eCryptfs: make key module subsystem respect namespaces 2008-04-29 08:06:07 -07:00
user.c alloc_uid: cleanup 2008-04-30 08:29:53 -07:00
utsname_sysctl.c Isolate the UTS namespace's domainname and hostname back 2007-11-29 09:24:53 -08:00
utsname.c kernel: explicitly include required header files under kernel/ 2008-04-29 08:06:04 -07:00
wait.c kernel: remove fastcall in kernel/* 2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
workqueue.c workqueue: remove redundant function invocation 2008-05-01 08:04:02 -07:00