From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Cypher Wu <cypher.w@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel rwlock design, Multicore and IGMP
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 23:53:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1289688826.2109.400.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik93QUQxSDmwd4Qj-gXQiWWPzd68JPAYAHBAsHR@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 11:32 +0800, Cypher Wu wrote:
> It seems not a problem that read_lock() can be nested or not since
> rwlock doesn't have 'owner',
You're mistaken.
> it's just that should we give
> write_lock() a priority than read_lock() since if there have a lot
> read_lock()s then they'll starve write_lock().
We rely on that behaviour. FWIW write preference locks will starve
readers.
> We should work out a well defined behavior so all the
> platform-dependent raw_rwlock has to design under that principle.
We have that, all archs have read preference rwlock_t, they have to,
code relies on it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-13 22:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <AANLkTikvT=x9eBovn2-m6HLqk7wyXSAR3sc9jCQ0C6mL@mail.gmail.com>
2010-11-11 15:23 ` Kernel rwlock design, Multicore and IGMP Eric Dumazet
2010-11-11 15:32 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-12 3:32 ` Cypher Wu
2010-11-12 6:28 ` Américo Wang
2010-11-12 7:13 ` Américo Wang
2010-11-12 7:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-12 8:19 ` Américo Wang
2010-11-12 9:09 ` Yong Zhang
2010-11-12 9:18 ` Américo Wang
2010-11-12 11:06 ` Cypher Wu
2010-11-13 6:35 ` Américo Wang
2010-11-12 13:00 ` Yong Zhang
2010-11-13 6:28 ` Américo Wang
2010-11-12 9:22 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-12 9:33 ` Américo Wang
2010-11-12 13:34 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] igmp: RCU conversion of in_dev->mc_list Eric Dumazet
2010-11-12 14:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-12 15:46 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 V2] " Eric Dumazet
2010-11-12 21:19 ` David Miller
2010-11-13 6:44 ` Américo Wang
2010-11-13 22:54 ` Kernel rwlock design, Multicore and IGMP Peter Zijlstra
2010-11-12 11:10 ` Cypher Wu
2010-11-12 11:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-13 22:53 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
[not found] ` <ZXmP8hjgLHA.4648@exchange1.tad.internal.tilera.com>
2010-11-13 23:03 ` Chris Metcalf
2010-11-15 7:22 ` Cypher Wu
2010-11-15 11:18 ` Cypher Wu
2010-11-15 11:31 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-17 1:30 ` Cypher Wu
2010-11-17 4:43 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-15 14:18 ` [PATCH] arch/tile: fix rwlock so would-be write lockers don't block new readers Chris Metcalf
2010-11-15 14:52 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-15 15:10 ` Chris Metcalf
2010-11-22 5:39 ` Cypher Wu
2010-11-22 13:35 ` Chris Metcalf
2010-11-23 1:36 ` Cypher Wu
2010-11-23 21:02 ` Chris Metcalf
2010-11-24 2:53 ` Cypher Wu
2010-11-24 14:09 ` Chris Metcalf
2010-11-24 16:37 ` Cypher Wu
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