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authorWaiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>2014-02-03 13:18:49 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2014-06-06 07:58:28 +0200
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locking/rwlocks: Introduce 'qrwlocks' - fair, queued rwlocks
This rwlock uses the arch_spin_lock_t as a waitqueue, and assuming the arch_spin_lock_t is a fair lock (ticket,mcs etc..) the resulting rwlock is a fair lock. It fits in the same 8 bytes as the regular rwlock_t by folding the reader and writer count into a single integer, using the remaining 4 bytes for the arch_spinlock_t. Architectures that can single-copy adress bytes can optimize queue_write_unlock() with a 0 write to the LSB (the write count). Performance as measured by Davidlohr Bueso (rwlock_t -> qrwlock_t): +--------------+-------------+---------------+ | Workload | #users | delta | +--------------+-------------+---------------+ | alltests | > 1400 | -4.83% | | custom | 0-100,> 100 | +1.43%,-1.57% | | high_systime | > 1000 | -2.61 | | shared | all | +0.32 | +--------------+-------------+---------------+ http://www.stgolabs.net/qrwlock-stuff/aim7-results-vs-rwsem_optsin/ Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> [peterz: near complete rewrite] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: "Paul E.McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-gac1nnl3wvs2ij87zv2xkdzq@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/kernel/Kconfig.locks b/kernel/Kconfig.locks
index d2b32ac27a39..35536d9c0964 100644
--- a/kernel/Kconfig.locks
+++ b/kernel/Kconfig.locks
@@ -223,3 +223,10 @@ endif
config MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER
def_bool y
depends on SMP && !DEBUG_MUTEXES
+
+config ARCH_USE_QUEUE_RWLOCK
+ bool
+
+config QUEUE_RWLOCK
+ def_bool y if ARCH_USE_QUEUE_RWLOCK
+ depends on SMP