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sched: Add a lock break for PREEMPT=y

Since load-balancing can hold rq->locks for quite a long while, allow
breaking out early when there is lock contention.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Peter Zijlstra 15 years ago
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      kernel/sched_fair.c

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kernel/sched_fair.c

@@ -2065,6 +2065,10 @@ static int move_tasks(struct rq *this_rq, int this_cpu, struct rq *busiest,
 		 */
 		if (idle == CPU_NEWLY_IDLE && this_rq->nr_running)
 			break;
+
+		if (raw_spin_is_contended(&this_rq->lock) ||
+				raw_spin_is_contended(&busiest->lock))
+			break;
 #endif
 	} while (load_moved && max_load_move > total_load_moved);