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| author |   Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com> | 2015-08-04 12:17:53 -0700 |
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| committer | Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com> | 2015-08-04 15:44:42 -0700 |
| commit | 9ca8dbcc65cfc63d6f5ef3312a33184e1d726e00 (patch) | |
| tree | 1c9cafbcd35f783a87880a10f85d1a060db1a563 /kernel/Documentation/percpu-rw-semaphore.txt | |
| parent | 98260f3884f4a202f9ca5eabed40b1354c489b29 (diff) | |
Add the rt linux 4.1.3-rt3 as base
Import the rt linux 4.1.3-rt3 as OPNFV kvm base.
It's from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-rt-devel.git linux-4.1.y-rt and
the base is:
commit 0917f823c59692d751951bf5ea699a2d1e2f26a2
Author: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Date: Sat Jul 25 12:13:34 2015 +0200
Prepare v4.1.3-rt3
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
We lose all the git history this way and it's not good. We
should apply another opnfv project repo in future.
Change-Id: I87543d81c9df70d99c5001fbdf646b202c19f423
Signed-off-by: Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com>
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1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/Documentation/percpu-rw-semaphore.txt b/kernel/Documentation/percpu-rw-semaphore.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7d3c82431 --- /dev/null +++ b/kernel/Documentation/percpu-rw-semaphore.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +Percpu rw semaphores +-------------------- + +Percpu rw semaphores is a new read-write semaphore design that is +optimized for locking for reading. + +The problem with traditional read-write semaphores is that when multiple +cores take the lock for reading, the cache line containing the semaphore +is bouncing between L1 caches of the cores, causing performance +degradation. + +Locking for reading is very fast, it uses RCU and it avoids any atomic +instruction in the lock and unlock path. On the other hand, locking for +writing is very expensive, it calls synchronize_rcu() that can take +hundreds of milliseconds. + +The lock is declared with "struct percpu_rw_semaphore" type. +The lock is initialized percpu_init_rwsem, it returns 0 on success and +-ENOMEM on allocation failure. +The lock must be freed with percpu_free_rwsem to avoid memory leak. + +The lock is locked for read with percpu_down_read, percpu_up_read and +for write with percpu_down_write, percpu_up_write. + +The idea of using RCU for optimized rw-lock was introduced by +Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>. +The code was written by Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> |