On 03/22/2019 03:30 PM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> Some of them _might_ be performance-critical. There's the one on
>> mmap_sem in the fault handling path, for example. And yes, I'd expect
>> the normal case to very much be "no other readers or writers"
On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Some of them _might_ be performance-critical. There's the one on
mmap_sem in the fault handling path, for example. And yes, I'd expect
the normal case to very much be "no other readers or writers" for that
one.
Yeah, the mmap_sem case in the fault
On 03/22/2019 01:01 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 7:30 AM Waiman Long wrote:
>> 19 files changed, 133 insertions(+), 930 deletions(-)
> Lovely. And it all looks sane to me.
>
> So ack.
>
> The only comment I have is about __down_read_trylock(), which probably
> isn't
As the generic rwsem-xadd code is using the appropriate acquire and
release versions of the atomic operations, the arch specific rwsem.h
files will not be that much faster than the generic code as long as the
atomic functions are properly implemented. So we can remove those arch
specific rwsem.h
