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If the optimistic spinning queue is empty and the rwsem does not have the handoff or write-lock bits set, it is actually not necessary to call rwsem_optimistic_spin() to spin on it. Instead, it can steal the lock directly as its reader bias is in the count already. If it is the first reader in this state, it will try to wake up other readers in the wait queue. With this patch applied, the following were the lock event counts after rebooting a 2-socket system and a "make -j96" kernel rebuild. rwsem_opt_rlock=4437 rwsem_rlock=29 rwsem_rlock_steal=19 So lock stealing represents about 0.4% of all the read locks acquired in the slow path. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201121041416.12285-4-longman@redhat.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.