On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:54:47AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:01 PM Waiman Long <long...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Currently, we have two different implementation of rwsem: > > 1) CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK (rwsem-spinlock.c) > > 2) CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM (rwsem-xadd.c) > > > > As we are going to use a single generic implementation for rwsem-xadd.c > > and no architecture-specific code will be needed, there is no point > > in keeping two different implementations of rwsem. In most cases, the > > performance of rwsem-spinlock.c will be worse. It also doesn't get all > > the performance tuning and optimizations that had been implemented in > > rwsem-xadd.c over the years. > > > > For simplication, we are going to remove rwsem-spinlock.c and make all > > architectures use a single implementation of rwsem - rwsem-xadd.c. > > > > All references to RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK and RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM > > in the code are removed. > > > > Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> > > Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <long...@redhat.com> > > Note that this conflicts with "[PATCH 03/11] kernel/locks: consolidate > RWSEM_GENERIC_* options" > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190213174005.28785-4-...@lst.de/
*sigh*.. of that never was Cc'ed to locking people :/
