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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <a.darwish@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	"Sebastian A. Siewior" <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/24] Documentation: locking: Describe seqlock design and usage
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 21:37:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200720213752.70319a1c@oasis.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200720213551.5ba9bc6d@oasis.local.home>

On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 21:35:51 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 17:55:07 +0200
> "Ahmed S. Darwish" <a.darwish@linutronix.de> wrote:
> > +Read path, three categories:
> > +
> > +1. Normal Sequence readers which never block a writer but they must
> > +   retry if a writer is in progress by detecting change in the sequence
> > +   number.  Writers do not wait for a sequence reader::
> > +
> > +	do {
> > +		seq = read_seqbegin(&foo_seqlock);
> > +
> > +		/* ... [[read-side critical section]] ... */
> > +
> > +	} while (read_seqretry(&foo_seqlock, seq));
> > +
> > +2. Locking readers which will wait if a writer or another locking reader
> > +   is in progress. A locking reader in progress will also block a writer
> > +   from entering its critical section. This read lock is
> > +   exclusive. Unlike rwlock_t, only one locking reader can acquire it::  
> 
> Nit, but I would mention that this acts similar to a normal spin_lock, and even disables preeption (in the non-RT case).

What I learned today: Ctrl-return on claws mail sends the email :-p

I need to disable that before I send another email before I'm done with it!


I haven't finished reading the rest.

-- Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-21  1:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-19 21:45 [PATCH v1 00/25] seqlock: Extend seqcount API with associated locks Ahmed S. Darwish
2020-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH v1 09/25] Documentation: locking: Describe seqlock design and usage Ahmed S. Darwish
2020-05-22 18:01   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-05-22 22:24     ` Steven Rostedt
2020-05-25 10:50       ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2020-05-25 11:02         ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2020-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH v1 10/25] seqlock: Add RST directives to kernel-doc code samples and notes Ahmed S. Darwish
2020-05-22 18:02   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-05-22 18:03     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-05-22 18:26       ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-22 18:32         ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-05-25  9:36           ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2020-05-25 13:44             ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-05-25 14:07               ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH v1 11/25] seqlock: Add missing kernel-doc annotations Ahmed S. Darwish
2020-05-19 21:45 ` [PATCH v1 12/25] seqlock: Extend seqcount API with associated locks Ahmed S. Darwish
2020-06-08  0:57 ` [PATCH v2 00/18] " Ahmed S. Darwish
2020-06-08  0:57   ` [PATCH v2 01/18] Documentation: locking: Describe seqlock design and usage Ahmed S. Darwish
2020-06-08  0:57   ` [PATCH v2 02/18] seqlock: Properly format kernel-doc code samples Ahmed S. Darwish
2020-06-08  0:57   ` [PATCH v2 03/18] seqlock: Add missing kernel-doc annotations Ahmed S. Darwish
2020-06-30  5:44 ` [PATCH v3 00/20] seqlock: Extend seqcount API with associated locks Ahmed S. Darwish
2020-06-30  5:44   ` [PATCH v3 01/20] Documentation: locking: Describe seqlock design and usage Ahmed S. Darwish
2020-07-06 21:04     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-06 21:12       ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-07-06 21:16       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-07 10:12       ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2020-07-07 12:47         ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-30  5:44   ` [PATCH v3 02/20] seqlock: Properly format kernel-doc code samples Ahmed S. Darwish
2020-06-30  5:44   ` [PATCH v3 03/20] seqlock: Add missing kernel-doc annotations Ahmed S. Darwish
2020-07-20 15:55 ` [PATCH v4 00/24] seqlock: Extend seqcount API with associated locks Ahmed S. Darwish
2020-07-20 15:55   ` [PATCH v4 01/24] Documentation: locking: Describe seqlock design and usage Ahmed S. Darwish
2020-07-21  1:35     ` Steven Rostedt
2020-07-21  1:37       ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2020-07-21  5:34       ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2020-07-21  1:44     ` Steven Rostedt
2020-07-21  1:51       ` Steven Rostedt
2020-07-21  7:15         ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2020-07-20 15:55   ` [PATCH v4 02/24] seqlock: Properly format kernel-doc code samples Ahmed S. Darwish
2020-07-20 15:55   ` [PATCH v4 03/24] seqlock: seqcount_t latch: End read sections with read_seqcount_retry() Ahmed S. Darwish
2020-07-20 15:55   ` [PATCH v4 05/24] seqlock: Add kernel-doc for seqcount_t and seqlock_t APIs Ahmed S. Darwish
2020-07-20 16:49   ` [PATCH v4 00/24] seqlock: Extend seqcount API with associated locks Eric Biggers
2020-07-20 17:33     ` Ahmed S. Darwish

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