On Sat, Jul 30 2016, 12:48 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 02:02:24PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 11:15:17 +0300 > > Amir Levy <amir.jer.l...@intel.com> wrote: > > > > > +static LIST_HEAD(controllers_list); static > > > +DECLARE_RWSEM(controllers_list_rwsem); > > > > Why use a semaphore when simple spinlock or mutex would be better? > > And never use a RW semaphore unless you can benchmark the difference > from a normal lock. If you can't benchmark it, then don't use it...
I used RW semaphore since most of the time the list will be accessed for read. Since it is used in non-time sensitive flows, I'll change it to mutex. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
