tree f5c52805a13b0ba7285133891b22d5424aa059cc
parent 6e111956ab4849976f9dcf46ecac575fa8105268
author Rhys Hiltner <rhys@justin.tv> 1573237824 -0800
committer Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org> 1573327892 +0000

sync: yield to the waiter when unlocking a starving mutex

When we have already assigned the semaphore ticket to a specific
waiter, we want to get the waiter running as fast as possible since
no other G waiting on the semaphore can acquire it optimistically.

The net effect is that, when a sync.Mutex is contended, the code in
the critical section guarded by the Mutex gets a priority boost.

Fixes #33747

The original work was done in CL 200577 by Carlo Alberto Ferraris. The
change was reverted in CL 205817 because it broke the linux-arm64-packet
and solaris-amd64-oraclerel builders.

Change-Id: I76d79b1d63fd206ed1c57fe6900cb7ae9e4d46cb
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/206180
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