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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: rwsem: down_read_unfair() proposal
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 11:03:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <22933.1273053820@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100505032033.GA19232@google.com>


If the system is as heavily loaded as you say, how do you prevent writer
starvation?  Or do things just grind along until sufficient threads are queued
waiting for a write lock?

David

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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: rwsem: down_read_unfair() proposal
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 11:03:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <22933.1273053820@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100505032033.GA19232@google.com>


If the system is as heavily loaded as you say, how do you prevent writer
starvation?  Or do things just grind along until sufficient threads are queued
waiting for a write lock?

David

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-05 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-05  3:20 rwsem: down_read_unfair() proposal Michel Lespinasse
2010-05-05  3:20 ` Michel Lespinasse
2010-05-05 10:03 ` David Howells [this message]
2010-05-05 10:03   ` David Howells
2010-05-05 10:36   ` Michel Lespinasse
2010-05-05 10:36     ` Michel Lespinasse
2010-05-06 23:26     ` Mike Waychison
2010-05-06 23:26       ` Mike Waychison
2010-05-05 10:06 ` David Howells
2010-05-05 10:06   ` David Howells
2010-05-05 10:48   ` Michel Lespinasse
2010-05-05 10:48     ` Michel Lespinasse
2010-05-05 11:09     ` David Howells
2010-05-05 11:09       ` David Howells

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