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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] rwsem: reduce spinlock contention in wakeup code path

    * Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> wrote:

    > That said, I am very scared of using rwlock_t here, and I would much
    > prefer we choose a fair lock (either spinlock or a new rwlock
    > implementation which guarantees not to starve any locker thread)

    Given how few users rwlock_t has today we could attempt to make it
    reader-writer fair, as long as the usecase of a hardirq or softirq
    context always getting nested read access on the same CPU is preserved.

    (but that can be done - if nothing else then with an explicit context
    check.)

    Thanks,

    Ingo


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