Re: [PATCH] anon_vmas: Convert the rwsem to an rwlock_t

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 09:26:21AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Sorry having to break the party but the sleepable locks for anon_vma
> > and i_mmap_mutex are now requirement for the "pageable RDMA" effort
> > recently achieved upstream by mellanox with the MMU notifier.
> 
> I'll happily break that.

Unless a solution is found that could allow to invalidate secondary
MMUs with a spinlock/rwlock for anon_vma->lock/i_mmap_lock, would it
be acceptable to switch between spinlock/rwlock mutex/rwsem through a
config option? option CONFIG_SLEEPABLE_RMAP, implicitly selected by
CONFIG_SLEEPABLE_MMU_NOTIFIER, in turn selected by the RDMA and nvidia
drivers if they're built (ideally nvidia drivers will figure out how
to avoid scheduling).

I mean it only requires a wrapping header file, aside from the header
file it wouldn't be a much bigger patch than the one posted already.

It would be much easier to switch between spinning and sleeping locks
to keep benchmarking different scenarios too.
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