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Oleg Nesterov 9390ef0c85 percpu_rw_semaphore: kill ->writer_mutex, add ->write_ctr
percpu_rw_semaphore->writer_mutex was only added to simplify the initial
rewrite, the only thing it protects is clear_fast_ctr() which otherwise
could be called by multiple writers.  ->rw_sem is enough to serialize the
writers.

Kill this mutex and add "atomic_t write_ctr" instead.  The writers
increment/decrement this counter, the readers check it is zero instead of
mutex_is_locked().

Move atomic_add(clear_fast_ctr(), slow_read_ctr) under down_write() to
avoid the race with other writers.  This is a bit sub-optimal, only the
first writer needs this and we do not need to exclude the readers at this
stage.  But this is simple, we do not want another internal lock until we
add more features.

And this speeds up the write-contended case.  Before this patch the racing
writers sleep in synchronize_sched_expedited() sequentially, with this
patch multiple synchronize_sched_expedited's can "overlap" with each
other.  Note: we can do more optimizations, this is only the first step.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17 17:15:18 -08:00
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acpi PCI changes for the v3.8 merge window: 2012-12-13 12:14:47 -08:00
asm-generic asm-generic: io: don't perform swab during {in,out} string functions 2012-12-17 17:15:13 -08:00
clocksource
crypto crypto: cast5/cast6 - move lookup tables to shared module 2012-12-06 17:16:26 +08:00
drm Merge branch 'drm-intel-fixes' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm-intel into drm-next 2012-12-16 06:05:03 +00:00
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linux percpu_rw_semaphore: kill ->writer_mutex, add ->write_ctr 2012-12-17 17:15:18 -08:00
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media [media] V4L: Add driver for S3C24XX/S3C64XX SoC series camera interface 2012-11-28 09:43:34 -02:00
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net Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2012-12-13 12:00:02 -08:00
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rdma UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/rdma 2012-11-22 00:43:10 -08:00
rxrpc
scsi SCSI misc on 20121212 2012-12-13 19:20:31 -08:00
sound Merge remote-tracking branch 'asoc/topic/tlv320aic32x4' into asoc-next 2012-12-10 00:22:20 +09:00
target target/iscsi_target: Add NodeACL tags for initiator group support 2012-12-13 14:18:09 -08:00
trace There are two major features for this merge window. The first is 2012-12-16 17:33:01 -08:00
uapi Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux 2012-12-17 08:26:17 -08:00
video Merge tag 'omapdss-for-3.8' of git://gitorious.org/linux-omap-dss2/linux into for-linus 2012-12-13 14:30:56 +02:00
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