Thread (34 messages) 34 messages, 8 authors, 2016-10-16

Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v4 07/10] locking/rwsem: Change RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS for better disambiguation

From: Wanpeng Li <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-22 02:15:34
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2016-08-20 0:21 GMT+08:00 Waiman Long [off-list ref]:
On 08/19/2016 01:57 AM, Wanpeng Li wrote:
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2016-08-19 5:11 GMT+08:00 Waiman Long[off-list ref]:
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When the count value is in between 0 and RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS, there
are 2 possibilities.
Either a writer is present and there is no waiter
count = 0xffff0001
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or there are waiters and readers. There is no easy way to
count = 0xffff000X

However, RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS is equal to 0xffff0000, so both these two
cases are beyond RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS, right?

Regards,
Wanpeng Li

Perhaps I should make it clear that I am talking from a signed quantity
point of view (it is an atomic_long_t). So

    RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS < RWSEM_ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS < 0

Hope this clarify your question.
Yeah, thank you. :)

Regards,
Wanpeng Li
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