From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
To: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, avagin@virtuozzo.com,
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viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH REBASED 3/6] s390: Add __down_read_killable()
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 12:39:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170930123946.7bb586c2@mschwideX1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170930123612.0fb250fe@mschwideX1>
On Sat, 30 Sep 2017 12:36:12 +0200
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Sep 2017 11:20:02 +0200
> Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 07:06:18PM +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> > > Similar to __down_write_killable(), and read killable primitive.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
> > > ---
> > > arch/s390/include/asm/rwsem.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
> > > 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/rwsem.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/rwsem.h
> >
> > FWIW, while looking into this patch I realized that we never optimized our
> > rwsem primitives to make use of new atomic instructions.
> >
> > The generic rwsem header file however does, since it uses atomic ops which
> > we did optimize. Even when compiling for old machines the generic version
> > generates better code. Therefore I will remove the 15 years old s390
> > implementation and switch to the generic version instead.
>
> Take care not to conflict with the queued spinlock/rwlock patches on the
> features branch.
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux.git/commit/?h=features&id=eb3b7b848fb3dd00f7a57d633d4ae4d194aa7865
>
> Me thinks that what you have in mind is already done.
Argh, pitfall rwlock != rwsem. Using the atomic_ops for the rwsem code makes
a lot of sense. Yes, please..
--
blue skies,
Martin.
"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-30 10:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-29 16:05 [PATCH REBASED 0/6] rwsem: Implement down_read_killable() Kirill Tkhai
2017-09-29 16:05 ` [PATCH REBASED 1/6] alpha: Add __down_read_killable() Kirill Tkhai
2017-10-10 11:03 ` [tip:locking/core] locking/arch, " tip-bot for Kirill Tkhai
2017-09-29 16:06 ` [PATCH REBASED 2/6] ia64: " Kirill Tkhai
2017-10-10 11:04 ` [tip:locking/core] locking/arch, " tip-bot for Kirill Tkhai
2017-09-29 16:06 ` [PATCH REBASED 3/6] s390: " Kirill Tkhai
2017-09-30 9:20 ` Heiko Carstens
2017-09-30 10:36 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2017-09-30 10:38 ` Heiko Carstens
2017-09-30 10:39 ` Martin Schwidefsky [this message]
2017-10-10 11:04 ` [tip:locking/core] locking/arch, " tip-bot for Kirill Tkhai
2017-09-29 16:06 ` [PATCH REBASED 4/6] x86: " Kirill Tkhai
2017-10-10 11:05 ` [tip:locking/core] locking/arch, " tip-bot for Kirill Tkhai
2017-09-29 16:06 ` [PATCH REBASED 5/6] rwsem: Add down_read_killable() Kirill Tkhai
2017-10-10 11:05 ` [tip:locking/core] locking/rwsem: " tip-bot for Kirill Tkhai
2017-09-29 16:06 ` [PATCH REBASED 6/6] fs: Use killable down_read() in iterate_dir() Kirill Tkhai
2017-09-29 16:06 ` Kirill Tkhai
2017-10-10 11:05 ` [tip:locking/core] locking/rwsem, " tip-bot for Kirill Tkhai
2017-10-03 9:03 ` [PATCH REBASED 0/6] rwsem: Implement down_read_killable() Peter Zijlstra
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