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Message-ID: <29355.1465483258@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:	Thu, 09 Jun 2016 15:40:58 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Chris Zankel <chris@...kel.net>,
	Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@...il.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-xtensa@...ux-xtensa.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ibm.com>,
	Jason Low <jason.low2@....com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 10/12] x86, rwsem: simplify __down_write

Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:

> Blergh; so looking at more asm there's still a few tricks we cannot do.
> So while overall size is down, some paths do end up more expensive. (It
> typically boils down to creative use of condition flags, which is very
> hard in C)

It can be done using ISO __atomic_fetch_add() and suchlike.

David

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