From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Ben LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, alan@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Chris Blizzard <blizzard@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: resend Re: [PATCH] final merging patch -- significant mozilla speedup.
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 07:11:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010819071148.B8700@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010819055311.A8700@athlon.random>; from andrea@suse.de on Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 05:53:11AM +0200
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 05:53:11AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> just need to do a second lookup after upgrading the lock because we
> don't have a primitive to upgrade the lock from "read" to "write"
I attempted to write such a primitive but it's impossible without a fail
path (think two readers trying to upgrade the lock at the same time, it
either deadlocks or one of the two will have to fail the atomic
upgrade and accept that something has changed under it), so it could
only improve performance saving a lookup sometime in case we are the
only readers out there, but we would still need to implement the ugly
slow path case (and avoiding the ugliness of such code was the only
reason I attempted to write such a primitive so...)
Andrea
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-19 5:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-16 21:02 Ben LaHaise
2001-08-18 18:22 ` resend " Ben LaHaise
2001-08-18 23:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-19 0:10 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-08-19 0:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-19 0:50 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-19 0:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-19 1:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-19 0:53 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-19 1:02 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-19 1:25 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-19 1:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-19 2:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-19 3:53 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-19 5:11 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-08-19 0:54 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-19 1:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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