Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] locking/rwsem: Remove rwsem-spinlock.c & use rwsem-xadd.c for all archs

Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-02-14T10:54:47Z

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:01 PM Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> wrote:
> Currently, we have two different implementation of rwsem:
> 1) CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK (rwsem-spinlock.c)
> 2) CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM (rwsem-xadd.c)
>
> As we are going to use a single generic implementation for rwsem-xadd.c
> and no architecture-specific code will be needed, there is no point
> in keeping two different implementations of rwsem. In most cases, the
> performance of rwsem-spinlock.c will be worse. It also doesn't get all
> the performance tuning and optimizations that had been implemented in
> rwsem-xadd.c over the years.
>
> For simplication, we are going to remove rwsem-spinlock.c and make all
> architectures use a single implementation of rwsem - rwsem-xadd.c.
>
> All references to RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK and RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM
> in the code are removed.
>
> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>

Note that this conflicts with "[PATCH 03/11] kernel/locks: consolidate
RWSEM_GENERIC_* options"
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190213174005.28785-4-hch@lst.de/

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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