Re: [PATCH] locking/qrwlock: Allow multiple spinning readers

[Will Deacon]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 12:31:43PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 06:12:38PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> > >>However, if we allow a limited number of readers to spin on the
> > >>lock simultaneously, we can eliminates some of the reader-to-reader
> > >>latencies at the expense of a bit more cacheline contention and
> > >>probably more power consumption.
> > >So the embedded people might not like that much.
> > 
> > It could be. It is always a compromise.
> 
> So ARM is the only one that currently waits without spinning and could
> care; so Will might have an opinion. One 'solution' would be to make
> this an optional feature.

Well, perhaps we could built this using the cmp-and-wait structure we spoke
about a couple of months back. What happened with that? Is there something I
need to go implement for ARM/arm64?

Will