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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 -tip 0/6] locking: Introduce range reader/writer lock
On Wed, 19 Apr 2017, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> - explain why the loss of lock stealing makes sense. IIRC walken added
> that specifically to address mmap_sem performance issues.

That's right, and the same applies to the writer spinning stuff; which
can makes a huge difference - more so than plain stealing. But as I've
mentioned, range locks can improve parallelism, which is/should be much
more welcomed than optimizations to the primitive. So yeah, we loose
in comparing a full range to rwsem (not to mention the xadd stuff).
I have thought of some heuristics for avoiding sleeping under certain
constraints, which could mitigate the spinning step we loose, but
I fear it will never be exactly as fast as rwsems -- just consider
we always take the tree->lock.

Thanks,
Davidlohr

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