On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 02:07:19PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:

On 32-bit architectures, there aren't enough bits to hold both.
64-bit architectures, however, can have enough bits to do that. For
x86-64, the physical address can use up to 52 bits. That is 4PB of
memory. That leaves 12 bits available for other use. The task structure
pointer is also aligned to the L1 cache size. That means another 6 bits
(64 bytes cacheline) will be available. Reserving 2 bits for status
flags, we will have 16 bits for the reader count.  That can supports
up to (64k-1) readers.

*groan*...

So take qrwlock's idea for a queue, then make the count value (similar
to the new mutex); that is have a bit0 be a r/w bit, when w bits 6-N are
owner, when r they are reader-count. bit1 can be a pending bit, bit2 a
handoff bit etc..

That should fit and work on 32bit and 64bit without issue.

I have a half-arsed rwsem-atomic.c somewhere that does just that. I just
never got around to doing all the optimistic spin and steal crap that
makes our current rwsem fly.

And that nicely gets rid of that mind bending BIAS crud.