On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:14:01AM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> Btrfs uses an rwsem to control access to its extent tree. Threads will hold a
> read lock on this rwsem while they scan the extent tree, and if need_resched()
> they will drop the lock and schedule. The transaction commit needs to take a
> write lock for this rwsem for a very short period to switch out the commit
> roots. If there are a lot of threads doing this caching operation we can
> starve
> out the committers which slows everybody out. To address this we want to add
> this functionality to see if our rwsem has anybody waiting to take a write
> lock
> so we can drop it and schedule for a bit to allow the commit to continue.
> +/*
> + * check to see if the rwsem we're holding has anybody waiting to acquire it.
> + */
> +int rwsem_is_contended(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
> +{
> + int ret = 0;
> + unsigned long flags;
> +
> + if (!raw_spin_trylock_irqsave(&sem->wait_lock, flags))
> + return 1;
> + if (!list_empty(&sem->wait_list))
> + ret = 1;
> + raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sem->wait_lock, flags);
> + return ret;
> +}
> +
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(rwsem_is_contended);
Modeled after spin_is_contended(), so no problem with that. One thing I
was wondering about is if it wants to be called
rwsem_is_write_contended() or similar, since it explicitly only tests
for pending writers.
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