Re: [PATCH-tip 00/22] locking/rwsem: Rework rwsem-xadd & enable new rwsem features

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 11:08 AM Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patchset revamps the current rwsem-xadd implementation to make
> it saner and easier to work with. This patchset removes all the
> architecture specific assembly code and uses generic C code for all
> architectures. This eases maintenance and enables us to enhance the
> code more easily.
>
> This patchset also implements the following 3 new features:
>
>  1) Waiter lock handoff
>  2) Reader optimistic spinning
>  3) Store write-lock owner in the atomic count (x86-64 only)

The patches are kind of hard to read, with most of them just doing
prep-work that doesn't necessarily matter to the big picture.

What I'd really like to see is

 (a) an overview of the new locking logic

 (b) what's the new fastpath case

 (c) some performance numbers

to explain the changes from a "this is the point of the whole
exercise" standpoint.

And yes, I realize that the lock handoff and optimistic spinning is a
big deal, since I've seen the same regression numbers that presumably
caused this effort to be resurrected. So it's not that I don't find
this intriguing and worthwhile, it's literally that I'd like a summary
not so much of the individual patches, but of the new model.

Please?

             Linus