Re: [PATCH] switch rangeset's lock to rwlock

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 02:32:35PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 18.09.14 at 15:02, <tim@xen.org> wrote:
> > At 13:15 +0100 on 18 Sep (1411042524), Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> >>> On 18.09.14 at 12:43, <tim@xen.org> wrote:
> >> > At 13:55 +0100 on 12 Sep (1410526507), Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> >> As a general library routine, it should behave as efficiently as
> >> >> possible, even if at present no significant contention is known here.
> >> >> 
> >> >> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> >> >> ---
> >> >> With the widened use of rangesets I'd like to re-suggest this change
> >> >> which I had posted already a couple of years back.
> >> > 
> >> > Is this addressing an actual (measured) problem or just seems like a
> >> > good idea?  If the latter maybe keep it until after 4.5?
> >> 
> >> The latter. And yes, I have no problem keeping it until after 4.5,
> >> it's just that the multi-ioreq-server's extended use of rangesets
> >> (as said elsewhere) would seem to make this a reasonable fit for
> >> 4.5.
> > 
> > Well, I think it's a question for the release manager, then. :)
> 
> Konrad?

I am comfortable with it. Responded with an Reviewed-by on the patch
itself and Ack for Xen 4.5.