linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 1/4] staging: lustre: obdclass: change spinlock of key to rwlock

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Date:   Thu, 3 May 2018 13:50:07 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'James Simmons' <jsimmons@...radead.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
        Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
        "Oleg Drokin" <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
        Lai Siyao <lai.siyao@...el.com>,
        "Jinshan Xiong" <jinshan.xiong@...el.com>,
        NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
CC:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Lustre Development List" <lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org>,
        Li Xi <lixi@....com>, "Gu Zheng" <gzheng@....com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/4] staging: lustre: obdclass: change spinlock of key to
 rwlock

From: James Simmons
> Sent: 02 May 2018 19:22
> From: Li Xi <lixi@....com>
> 
> Most of the time, keys are never changed. So rwlock might be
> better for the concurrency of key read.

OTOH unless there is contention on the spin lock during reads the
additional cost of a rwlock (probably double that of a spinlock)
will hurt performance.

...
> -	spin_lock(&lu_keys_guard);
> +	read_lock(&lu_keys_guard);
>  	atomic_inc(&lu_key_initing_cnt);
> -	spin_unlock(&lu_keys_guard);
> +	read_unlock(&lu_keys_guard);

WTF, seems unlikely that you need to hold any kind of lock
over an atomic_inc().

If this is just ensuring that no code holds the lock then
it would need to request the write_lock().
(and would need a comment)

	David