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From: tip-bot for Davidlohr Bueso <tipbot@zytor.com>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@kernel.org,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, peterz@infradead.org,
	rdunlap@infradead.org, jason.low2@hp.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	davidlohr@hp.com
Subject: [tip:locking/core] locking/Documentation: Update locking/ mutex-design.txt disadvantages
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 03:56:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-0a7cbf9abe3198461de3d3e97268db32a646ba06@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1406752916-3341-7-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com>

Commit-ID:  0a7cbf9abe3198461de3d3e97268db32a646ba06
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/0a7cbf9abe3198461de3d3e97268db32a646ba06
Author:     Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
AuthorDate: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 13:41:56 -0700
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 10:32:04 +0200

locking/Documentation: Update locking/mutex-design.txt disadvantages

Fortunately Jason was able to reduce some of the overhead we
had introduced in the original rwsem optimistic spinning -
an it is now the same size as mutexes. Update the documentation
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Acked-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: aswin@hp.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406752916-3341-7-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 Documentation/locking/mutex-design.txt | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/locking/mutex-design.txt b/Documentation/locking/mutex-design.txt
index ee231ed..60c482d 100644
--- a/Documentation/locking/mutex-design.txt
+++ b/Documentation/locking/mutex-design.txt
@@ -145,9 +145,9 @@ Disadvantages
 
 Unlike its original design and purpose, 'struct mutex' is larger than
 most locks in the kernel. E.g: on x86-64 it is 40 bytes, almost twice
-as large as 'struct semaphore' (24 bytes) and 8 bytes shy of the
-'struct rw_semaphore' variant. Larger structure sizes mean more CPU
-cache and memory footprint.
+as large as 'struct semaphore' (24 bytes) and tied, along with rwsems,
+for the largest lock in the kernel. Larger structure sizes mean more
+CPU cache and memory footprint.
 
 When to use mutexes
 -------------------

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-13 10:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-30 20:41 [PATCH -tip v2 1/7] locking/mutex: Standardize arguments in lock/unlock slowpaths Davidlohr Bueso
2014-07-30 20:41 ` [PATCH -tip v2 2/7] locking/mutex: Document quick lock release when unlocking Davidlohr Bueso
2014-08-13 10:55   ` [tip:locking/core] locking/mutexes: " tip-bot for Davidlohr Bueso
2014-07-30 20:41 ` [PATCH -tip v2 3/7] locking/mcs: Remove obsolete comment Davidlohr Bueso
2014-08-13 10:55   ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Davidlohr Bueso
2014-07-30 20:41 ` [PATCH -tip v2 4/7] locking/mutex: Refactor optimistic spinning code Davidlohr Bueso
2014-07-31  0:56   ` Jason Low
2014-08-13 10:55   ` [tip:locking/core] locking/mutexes: " tip-bot for Davidlohr Bueso
2014-07-30 20:41 ` [PATCH -tip v2 5/7] locking/mutex: Use MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER when appropriate Davidlohr Bueso
2014-08-13 10:55   ` [tip:locking/core] locking/mutexes: " tip-bot for Davidlohr Bueso
2014-07-30 20:41 ` [PATCH -tip v2 6/7] locking: Move docs into Documentation/locking/ Davidlohr Bueso
2014-07-30 21:02   ` Randy Dunlap
2014-07-31  6:53     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-08-13 10:56   ` [tip:locking/core] locking/Documentation: Move locking related " tip-bot for Davidlohr Bueso
2014-07-30 20:41 ` [PATCH -tip v2 7/7] Documentation: Update locking/mutex-design.txt disadvantages Davidlohr Bueso
2014-08-13 10:56   ` tip-bot for Davidlohr Bueso [this message]
2014-08-13 10:54 ` [tip:locking/core] locking/mutexes: Standardize arguments in lock /unlock slowpaths tip-bot for Davidlohr Bueso

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