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From: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
	Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hpe.com>,
	Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hpe.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/5] locking/rwsem: Don't wake up one's own task
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 12:04:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <573C9276.5020509@hpe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160518103011.GC3193@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On 05/18/2016 06:30 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 09:26:21PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
>> As rwsem_down_read_failed() will queue itself and potentially call
>> __rwsem_do_wake(sem, RWSEM_WAKE_ANY), it is possible that a reader
>> will try to wake up its own task. This patch adds a check to make
>> sure that this won't happen.
>>
> Yes, this is 'weird', but why are we fixing it at the cost of an extra
> branch?

I think I should have put an unlikely tag there. Anyway, the cost of an 
extra branch should be pretty small compared with all the task wakeup 
work that have to be done. If you think this is necessary, I am totally 
fine for scrapping it.

Cheers,
Longman

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-18 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-18  1:26 [PATCH v4 0/5] [PATCH v3 0/4] locking/rwsem: Add reader-owned state to the owner field Waiman Long
2016-05-18  1:26 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] " Waiman Long
2016-06-06 17:18   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2016-06-06 20:03     ` Waiman Long
2016-06-06 21:02     ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-06 21:49       ` Waiman Long
2016-06-08 14:25   ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Waiman Long
2016-05-18  1:26 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] locking/rwsem: Protect all writes to owner by WRITE_ONCE() Waiman Long
2016-05-18 14:04   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2016-05-18 17:21     ` [PATCH v4 2/5] locking/rwsem: Protect all writes to owner by WRITE_ONCE Jason Low
2016-05-18 18:29       ` Waiman Long
2016-05-18 19:58         ` Jason Low
2016-05-19 22:21           ` Jason Low
2016-05-20 20:26             ` Waiman Long
2016-05-21 16:04           ` Peter Hurley
2016-05-22 10:42             ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-23 18:46             ` Jason Low
2016-05-23 19:44               ` Davidlohr Bueso
2016-05-23 20:15                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-05-23 21:04                   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2016-05-25  1:25               ` Waiman Long
2016-05-18 17:23     ` [PATCH v4 2/5] locking/rwsem: Protect all writes to owner by WRITE_ONCE() Jason Low
2016-06-08 14:25   ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Waiman Long
2016-05-18  1:26 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] locking/rwsem: Don't wake up one's own task Waiman Long
2016-05-18 10:30   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-18 16:04     ` Waiman Long [this message]
2016-05-18  1:26 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] locking/rwsem: Improve reader wakeup code Waiman Long
2016-06-08 14:25   ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Waiman Long
2016-05-18  1:26 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] locking/rwsem: Streamline the rwsem_optimistic_spin() code Waiman Long
2016-06-08 14:26   ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Waiman Long
2016-05-18 10:52 ` [PATCH v4 0/5] [PATCH v3 0/4] locking/rwsem: Add reader-owned state to the owner field Peter Zijlstra

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