From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759545AbcHEIGT (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Aug 2016 04:06:19 -0400 Received: from smtp2.provo.novell.com ([137.65.250.81]:54379 "EHLO smtp2.provo.novell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751567AbcHEIGN (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Aug 2016 04:06:13 -0400 From: Davidlohr Bueso To: peterz@infradead.org, mingo@kernel.org Cc: Waiman.Long@hp.com, jason.low2@hpe.com, wanpeng.li@hotmail.com, dave@stgolabs.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 0/3] locking/rwsem: __rwsem_mark_wake() improvements Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 01:04:42 -0700 Message-Id: <1470384285-32163-1-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.6.6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, Wanpeng recently reminded me of how horrible this function is, and we are now in a position to improve it; see patch 3 for details. Please consider for v4.9. Thanks! Davidlohr Bueso (3): locking/rwsem: Return void in __rwsem_mark_wake() locking/rwsem: Remove a few useless comments locking/rwsem: Scan the wait_list for readers only once kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c | 92 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------------- 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-) -- 2.6.6