From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
mingo@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tj@kernel.org,
john.stultz@linaro.org, dimitrysh@google.com, romlem@google.com,
ccross@google.com, tkjos@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] locking/percpu-rwsem: Introduce bias knob
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 21:38:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160714193800.GN30154@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160714192959.GY7094@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 12:29:59PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 09:20:18PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > /**
> > + * rcu_sync_sabotage() - Sabotage a fresh rcu_sync instance
> > + * @rsp: Pointer to rcu_sync structure to be sabotaged
> > + *
> > + * Must be called after rcu_sync_init() and before first use.
> > + *
> > + * Ensures rcu_sync_is_idle() returns false and rcu_sync_{enter,exit}() pairs
> > + * turn into NO-OPs.
> > + */
> > +void rcu_sync_sabotage(struct rcu_sync *rsp)
> > +{
> > + rsp->gp_count++;
> > + rsp->gp_state = !GP_IDLE;
>
> ??? A very strange way to say GP_PENDING. A new GP_DISABLED, perhaps?
Right, so the important thing is that its not GP_IDLE, the rest doesn't
really matter.
This forces rcu_sync_is_idle() to return false. The skewed gp_count
ensures rcu_sync_{enter,exit}() pairs no-op.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-14 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-14 18:25 [PATCH 0/2] locking/percpu-rwsem: Optimizations/tweaks Peter Zijlstra
2016-07-14 18:25 ` [PATCH 1/2] locking/percpu-rwsem: Optimize readers and reduce global impact Peter Zijlstra
2016-07-15 16:30 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-07-15 19:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-07-18 18:23 ` kbuild test robot
2016-07-18 22:51 ` kbuild test robot
2016-07-14 18:25 ` [PATCH 2/2] locking/percpu-rwsem: Introduce bias knob Peter Zijlstra
2016-07-14 18:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-07-14 18:43 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-07-14 18:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-07-14 19:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-07-14 19:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-07-14 19:38 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2016-07-14 19:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-07-15 13:27 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-07-15 13:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-07-15 13:45 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-07-15 15:38 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-07-15 16:49 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-07-15 18:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-07-16 17:10 ` [PATCH] rcu_sync: simplify the state machine, introduce __rcu_sync_enter() Oleg Nesterov
2016-07-16 18:40 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-07-18 11:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-07-18 13:44 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-07-19 20:50 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-07-20 15:13 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-07-20 20:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-07-21 17:34 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-07-20 17:16 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-07-20 21:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-07-21 17:34 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-07-22 3:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-07-25 17:01 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-07-25 17:05 ` John Stultz
2016-07-25 17:26 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-08-09 8:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-07-25 17:49 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-07-15 13:42 ` [PATCH 2/2] locking/percpu-rwsem: Introduce bias knob Oleg Nesterov
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