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author | Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> | 2014-09-16 17:16:57 -0700 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2014-10-03 06:09:29 +0200 |
commit | debfab74e453f079cd8b12b0604387a8c510ef3a (patch) | |
tree | bab0d5cc8f56dde5ad91d409683aac5d7fec8b47 /lib | |
parent | db0e716a1512179e8374a74c1f3184e9ce15d138 (diff) |
locking/rwsem: Avoid double checking before try acquiring write lock
Commit 9b0fc9c09f1b ("rwsem: skip initial trylock in rwsem_down_write_failed")
checks for if there are known active lockers in order to avoid write trylocking
using expensive cmpxchg() when it likely wouldn't get the lock.
However, a subsequent patch was added such that we directly
check for sem->count == RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS right before trying
that cmpxchg().
Thus, commit 9b0fc9c09f1b now just adds overhead.
This patch modifies it so that we only do a check for if
count == RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS.
Also, add a comment on why we do an "extra check" of count
before the cmpxchg().
Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410913017.2447.22.camel@j-VirtualBox
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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