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

[Will Deacon]

On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 06:28:45PM +0300, Yury Norov wrote:
> 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. 

To be honest, I'm going to spend some time looking at the qrwlock code again
before I enable it for arm64, so I don't think you need to rush to resend
patches since I suspect I'll have a few in the meantime.

Will