linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] locking/rwsem: Remove arch specific rwsem files

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Date:   Mon, 11 Feb 2019 10:40:44 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-hexagon@...r.kernel.org, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
        sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-xtensa@...ux-xtensa.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] locking/rwsem: Remove arch specific rwsem files

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 10:36:01AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 09:00:50PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> > +static inline int __down_read_trylock(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
> > +{
> > +	long tmp;
> > +
> > +	while ((tmp = atomic_long_read(&sem->count)) >= 0) {
> > +		if (tmp == atomic_long_cmpxchg_acquire(&sem->count, tmp,
> > +				   tmp + RWSEM_ACTIVE_READ_BIAS)) {
> > +			return 1;
> 
> That really wants to be:
> 
> 		if (atomic_long_try_cmpxchg_acquire(&sem->count, &tmp,
> 						    tmp + RWSEM_ACTIVE_READ_BIAS))
> 
> > +		}
> > +	}
> > +	return 0;
> > +}

Also, the is the one case where LL/SC can actually do 'better'. Do you
have benchmarks for say PowerPC or ARM64 ?