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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rcu@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: MengEn Sun <mengensun@tencent.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	YueHong Wu <yuehongwu@tencent.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
	Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
	Zqiang <qiang.zhang1211@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] ucount: Simplify refcounting with rcuref_t.
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 21:48:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250207204854.rc1gron_@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250203150525.456525-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de>

On 2025-02-03 16:05:21 [+0100], To linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org wrote:
> I noticed that the atomic_dec_and_lock_irqsave() in put_ucounts() loops
> sometimes even during boot. Something like 2-3 iterations but still.
> This series replaces the refcounting with rcuref_t and adds a RCU
> lookup.
> This allows a lockless lookup in alloc_ucounts() if the entry is
> available and a cmpxchg()less put of the item.

Andrew, could you please take this series?

Sebastian

      parent reply	other threads:[~2025-02-07 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-02-03 15:05 [PATCH 0/4] ucount: Simplify refcounting with rcuref_t Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2025-02-03 15:05 ` [PATCH 1/4] rcu: Provide a static initializer for hlist_nulls_head Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2025-02-03 15:05 ` [PATCH 2/4] ucount: Replace get_ucounts_or_wrap() with atomic_inc_not_zero() Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2025-02-03 15:05 ` [PATCH 3/4] ucount: Use RCU for ucounts lookups Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2025-02-03 15:05 ` [PATCH 4/4] ucount: Use rcuref_t for reference counting Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2025-02-04  2:00 ` [PATCH 0/4] ucount: Simplify refcounting with rcuref_t Paul E. McKenney
2025-02-07 20:48 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior [this message]

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