From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] btrfs: Implement DRW lock
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 05:41:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200130134115.GB21841@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200130125945.7383-2-nborisov@suse.com>
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 02:59:41PM +0200, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> A (D)ouble (R)eader (W)riter lock is a locking primitive that allows
> to have multiple readers or multiple writers but not multiple readers
> and writers holding it concurrently. The code is factored out from
> the existing open-coded locking scheme used to exclude pending
> snapshots from nocow writers and vice-versa. Current implementation
> actually favors Readers (that is snapshot creaters) to writers (nocow
> writers of the filesystem).
Any reason not to move it to lib/ under a new option so that other
users could reuse it as needed?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-30 13:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-30 12:59 [PATCH 0/2] Refactor snapshot vs nocow writers locking Nikolay Borisov
2020-01-30 12:59 ` [PATCH 1/2] btrfs: Implement DRW lock Nikolay Borisov
2020-01-30 13:41 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-01-30 13:42 ` Nikolay Borisov
2020-01-30 13:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-30 12:59 ` [PATCH 2/2] btrfs: convert snapshot/nocow exlcusion to drw lock Nikolay Borisov
2020-01-30 12:59 ` [RESEND PATCH v2 0/2] Refactor snapshot vs nocow writers locking Nikolay Borisov
2020-01-30 14:21 ` David Sterba
2020-02-21 14:51 ` David Sterba
2020-01-30 12:59 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] btrfs: Implement DRW lock Nikolay Borisov
2020-01-30 13:37 ` Nikolay Borisov
2020-01-30 14:06 ` David Sterba
2020-01-30 14:11 ` Nikolay Borisov
2020-01-30 12:59 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] btrfs: convert snapshot/nocow exlcusion to drw lock Nikolay Borisov
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-02-24 15:26 [PATCH v3 0/2] Refactor snapshot vs nocow writers locking Nikolay Borisov
2020-02-24 15:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] btrfs: Implement DRW lock Nikolay Borisov
2019-06-06 13:52 [PATCH 0/2] Refactor snapshot vs nocow writers locking Nikolay Borisov
2019-06-06 13:52 ` [PATCH 1/2] btrfs: Implement DRW lock Nikolay Borisov
2019-06-06 15:15 ` Filipe Manana
2019-06-07 10:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-06-07 11:59 ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-06-08 15:13 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-06-08 15:44 ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-06-08 16:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-06-08 16:21 ` Nikolay Borisov
2019-06-08 16:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-06-08 16:33 ` Andrea Parri
2019-06-12 14:05 ` David Sterba
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