From: tip-bot for Davidlohr Bueso <tipbot@zytor.com>
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torvalds@linux-foundation.org, peterz@infradead.org,
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davidlohr@hp.com
Subject: [tip:locking/core] locking/Documentation: Update locking/ mutex-design.txt disadvantages
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 03:56:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-0a7cbf9abe3198461de3d3e97268db32a646ba06@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1406752916-3341-7-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com>
Commit-ID: 0a7cbf9abe3198461de3d3e97268db32a646ba06
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/0a7cbf9abe3198461de3d3e97268db32a646ba06
Author: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
AuthorDate: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 13:41:56 -0700
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 10:32:04 +0200
locking/Documentation: Update locking/mutex-design.txt disadvantages
Fortunately Jason was able to reduce some of the overhead we
had introduced in the original rwsem optimistic spinning -
an it is now the same size as mutexes. Update the documentation
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Acked-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: aswin@hp.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406752916-3341-7-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/locking/mutex-design.txt | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/locking/mutex-design.txt b/Documentation/locking/mutex-design.txt
index ee231ed..60c482d 100644
--- a/Documentation/locking/mutex-design.txt
+++ b/Documentation/locking/mutex-design.txt
@@ -145,9 +145,9 @@ Disadvantages
Unlike its original design and purpose, 'struct mutex' is larger than
most locks in the kernel. E.g: on x86-64 it is 40 bytes, almost twice
-as large as 'struct semaphore' (24 bytes) and 8 bytes shy of the
-'struct rw_semaphore' variant. Larger structure sizes mean more CPU
-cache and memory footprint.
+as large as 'struct semaphore' (24 bytes) and tied, along with rwsems,
+for the largest lock in the kernel. Larger structure sizes mean more
+CPU cache and memory footprint.
When to use mutexes
-------------------
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-13 10:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-30 20:41 [PATCH -tip v2 1/7] locking/mutex: Standardize arguments in lock/unlock slowpaths Davidlohr Bueso
2014-07-30 20:41 ` [PATCH -tip v2 2/7] locking/mutex: Document quick lock release when unlocking Davidlohr Bueso
2014-08-13 10:55 ` [tip:locking/core] locking/mutexes: " tip-bot for Davidlohr Bueso
2014-07-30 20:41 ` [PATCH -tip v2 3/7] locking/mcs: Remove obsolete comment Davidlohr Bueso
2014-08-13 10:55 ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Davidlohr Bueso
2014-07-30 20:41 ` [PATCH -tip v2 4/7] locking/mutex: Refactor optimistic spinning code Davidlohr Bueso
2014-07-31 0:56 ` Jason Low
2014-08-13 10:55 ` [tip:locking/core] locking/mutexes: " tip-bot for Davidlohr Bueso
2014-07-30 20:41 ` [PATCH -tip v2 5/7] locking/mutex: Use MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER when appropriate Davidlohr Bueso
2014-08-13 10:55 ` [tip:locking/core] locking/mutexes: " tip-bot for Davidlohr Bueso
2014-07-30 20:41 ` [PATCH -tip v2 6/7] locking: Move docs into Documentation/locking/ Davidlohr Bueso
2014-07-30 21:02 ` Randy Dunlap
2014-07-31 6:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-08-13 10:56 ` [tip:locking/core] locking/Documentation: Move locking related " tip-bot for Davidlohr Bueso
2014-07-30 20:41 ` [PATCH -tip v2 7/7] Documentation: Update locking/mutex-design.txt disadvantages Davidlohr Bueso
2014-08-13 10:56 ` tip-bot for Davidlohr Bueso [this message]
2014-08-13 10:54 ` [tip:locking/core] locking/mutexes: Standardize arguments in lock /unlock slowpaths tip-bot for Davidlohr Bueso
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