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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/5] locking: Introduce range reader/writer lock
On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 09:03:26PM -0800, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> +++ b/kernel/locking/range_rwlock.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,462 @@
> +/*
> + * Implementation of read/write range locks.
> + *
> + * We keep interval tree of locked and to-be-locked ranges. When new range lock
> + * is requested, we add its interval to the tree and store number of intervals
> + * intersecting it to 'blocking_ranges'.
> + *
> + * When a range is unlocked, we again walk intervals that intersect with the
> + * unlocked one and decrement their 'blocking_ranges'. We wake up owner of any
> + * range lock whose 'blocking_ranges' drops to 0. For the shared case, the
> + * 'blocking_ranges' is only incremented if the intersecting range is not marked
> + * as a reader. In order to mitigate some of the tree walk overhead for
> + * non-intersecting ranges, the tree's min/max values are maintained and consulted
> + * in O(1) in the fastpath.
> + */

Was your editor broken? Those lines are > 80 for no reason what so ever.

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