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From: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: tee@sgi.com, Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Subject: [PATCH V2 0/2] enable irqs when waiting for rwlocks
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:57:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1224777451.11530.52.camel@elijah.suse.cz> (raw)

New in V2:
 * get rid of ugly #ifdef's in kernel/spinlock.h
 * convert __raw_{read|write}_lock_flags to an inline func

SGI has observed that on large systems, interrupts are not serviced for
a long period of time when waiting for a rwlock. The following patch
series re-enables irqs while waiting for the lock, resembling the code
which is already there for spinlocks.

I only made the ia64 version, because the patch adds some overhead to
the fast path. I assume there is currently no demand to have this for
other architectures, because the systems are not so large. Of course,
the possibility to implement raw_{read|write}_lock_flags for any
architecture is still there.

Petr Tesarik



             reply	other threads:[~2008-10-23 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-23 15:57 Petr Tesarik [this message]
2008-10-23 16:06 ` [PATCH V2 1/3] Factor out #ifdef's from kernel/spinlock.c to Petr Tesarik
2008-11-27 15:32   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-23 16:06 ` [PATCH V2 2/3] Allow rwlocks to re-enable interrupts Petr Tesarik
2008-11-27 15:33   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-31  8:52 ` [PATCH V2 0/2] enable irqs when waiting for rwlocks Petr Tesarik
2008-10-31 20:22   ` Luck, Tony
2008-11-03 11:46     ` Robin Holt
2008-11-03 21:47       ` Luck, Tony
2008-11-05  9:54         ` Petr Tesarik

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