Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 2/3] Introduce percpu rw semaphores

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Sun Jul 29 2012 - 14:36:09 EST


On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 12:10 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> You can probably design something needing no more than 4 bytes per cpu,
> and this thing could use non locked operations as bonus.
>
> like the following ...

Coming back from my bike ride, here is a more polished version with
proper synchronization/ barriers.

struct percpu_rw_semaphore {
/* percpu_sem_down_read() use the following in fast path */
unsigned int __percpu *active_counters;

unsigned int __percpu *counters;
struct rw_semaphore sem; /* used in slow path and by writers */
};

static inline int percpu_sem_init(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *p)
{
p->counters = alloc_percpu(unsigned int);
if (!p->counters)
return -ENOMEM;
init_rwsem(&p->sem);
rcu_assign_pointer(p->active_counters, p->counters);
return 0;
}


static inline bool percpu_sem_down_read(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *p)
{
unsigned int __percpu *counters;

rcu_read_lock();
counters = rcu_dereference(p->active_counters);
if (counters) {
this_cpu_inc(*counters);
smp_wmb(); /* paired with smp_rmb() in percpu_count() */
rcu_read_unlock();
return true;
}
rcu_read_unlock();
down_read(&p->sem);
return false;
}

static inline void percpu_sem_up_read(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *p, bool fastpath)
{
if (fastpath)
this_cpu_dec(*p->counters);
else
up_read(&p->sem);
}

static inline unsigned int percpu_count(unsigned int __percpu *counters)
{
unsigned int total = 0;
int cpu;

for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
total += *per_cpu_ptr(counters, cpu);

return total;
}

static inline void percpu_sem_down_write(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *p)
{
down_write(&p->sem);
p->active_counters = NULL;
synchronize_rcu();
smp_rmb(); /* paired with smp_wmb() in percpu_sem_down_read() */

while (percpu_count(p->counters))
schedule();
}

static inline void percpu_sem_up_write(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *p)
{
rcu_assign_pointer(p->active_counters, p->counters);
up_write(&p->sem);
}


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