diff options
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 41541d79e3c8..09b574e7f4df 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? |