Re: çå: [PATCH 0/3] arm64: queued spinlocks and rw-locks

From: Yury Norov
Date: Fri May 05 2017 - 11:29:10 EST


On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 01:26:40PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 01:53:03PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 11:28:09PM +0300, Yury Norov wrote:
> > > I don't think
> > > it's a real use case to have ticket spinlocks and queued rwlocks
> >
> > There's nothing wrong with that combination. In fact, we merged qrwlock
> > much earlier than qspinlock.
>
> ... and that's almost certainly the direction we'll go on arm64 too, not
> least because the former are a lot easier to grok.
>
> Will

Hmm. Then I think I have to split patch 3 to rwlock and spinlock
parts, and allow user to enable them independently in config.

Yury