From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 19:45:42 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH-tip 15/22] locking/rwsem: Merge owner into count on x86-64 Message-Id: <20190207194542.GG32511@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> List-Id: References: <1549566446-27967-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com> <1549566446-27967-16-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1549566446-27967-16-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Waiman Long Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org, Davidlohr Bueso , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Tim Chen , Arnd Bergmann , linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, Will Deacon , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Andrew Morton , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 02:07:19PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote: > On 32-bit architectures, there aren't enough bits to hold both. > 64-bit architectures, however, can have enough bits to do that. For > x86-64, the physical address can use up to 52 bits. That is 4PB of > memory. That leaves 12 bits available for other use. The task structure > pointer is also aligned to the L1 cache size. That means another 6 bits > (64 bytes cacheline) will be available. Reserving 2 bits for status > flags, we will have 16 bits for the reader count. That can supports > up to (64k-1) readers. *groan*... So take qrwlock's idea for a queue, then make the count value (similar to the new mutex); that is have a bit0 be a r/w bit, when w bits 6-N are owner, when r they are reader-count. bit1 can be a pending bit, bit2 a handoff bit etc.. That should fit and work on 32bit and 64bit without issue. I have a half-arsed rwsem-atomic.c somewhere that does just that. I just never got around to doing all the optimistic spin and steal crap that makes our current rwsem fly. And that nicely gets rid of that mind bending BIAS crud.