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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 0/5] Optimize percpu-rwsem
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On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> wrote:
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> Instead of dropping percpu-rwsem, I was thinking we could instead look
> for opportunities to convert new users, for instance shinkers, where the
> write lock is also taken just for register and unregister purposes,
> similar to uprobes.

So if there really are useful use cases for this, I don't object to
the patch. It seems to just improve on a currently very low-usage
locking primitive.

And it's not like I conceptually mind the notion of a percpu rwsem, I
just hate seeing specialty locking that isn't really worth it.

Because as it is, with the current single use, I don't think it's even
worth improving on.

I _would_ ask that people who are looking at this also look at our
"lglock" thing. It's pretty much *exactly* the same thing, except for
spinlocks, and that one too has exactly two users (the documentation
states that the only user is stop_machine, but in fact file locking
does too).

Because that is another example of a complete failure of a locking
primitive that was just too specialized to be worth it.

Linus


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