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| [Patch V3 0/3] Enable irqs when waiting for rwlocks |
| Date: |
| Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:24:05 -0600 |
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| <20081104122405.046233722@attica.americas.sgi.com> |
| Cc: |
| Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>, Tony Ernst <tee@sgi.com>,
Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
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New in V3:
* Handle rearrangement of some arch's include/asm directories.
New in V2:
* get rid of ugly #ifdef's in kernel/spinlock.h
* convert __raw_{read|write}_lock_flags to an inline func
SGI has observed that on large systems, interrupts are not serviced for
a long period of time when waiting for a rwlock. The following patch
series re-enables irqs while waiting for the lock, resembling the code
which is already there for spinlocks.
I only made the ia64 version, because the patch adds some overhead to
the fast path. I assume there is currently no demand to have this for
other architectures, because the systems are not so large. Of course,
the possibility to implement raw_{read|write}_lock_flags for any
architecture is still there.
Robin Holt
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