Re: [PATCH 2/6] locking: Introduce range reader/writer lock

[Jan Kara]

On Thu 13-04-17 10:07:48, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> On 06/04/2017 18:50, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> > On Thu, 06 Apr 2017, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> > 
> >> How is 'seqnum' wrapping handled here ?
> >> I'd rather see something like time_before() here, isn't it ?
> > 
> > Its a 64bit counter, no overflows.
> 
> I should have miss something, what prevents this 64bit counter to not
> overflow ?
> At some point of time, this counter could reach ~0UL and then 0UL, which
> is breaking this check.

Count for yourself how long would it take for the counter to overflow if we
incremented it say every nanosecond?

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
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