Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v4 07/10] locking/rwsem: Change RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS for better disambiguation

From	Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v4 07/10] locking/rwsem: Change RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS for better disambiguation
Date	2016-08-22 04:20 +0200
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2016-08-20 0:21 GMT+08:00 Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com>:
> On 08/19/2016 01:57 AM, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>>
>> 2016-08-19 5:11 GMT+08:00 Waiman Long<Waiman.Long@hpe.com>:
>>>
>>> When the count value is in between 0 and RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS, there
>>> are 2 possibilities.
>>> Either a writer is present and there is no waiter
>>
>> count = 0xffff0001
>>
>>> or there are waiters and readers. There is no easy way to
>>
>> count = 0xffff000X
>>
>> However, RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS is equal to 0xffff0000, so both these two
>> cases are beyond RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS, right?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Wanpeng Li
>
>
> Perhaps I should make it clear that I am talking from a signed quantity
> point of view (it is an atomic_long_t). So
>
>     RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS < RWSEM_ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS < 0
>
> Hope this clarify your question.

Yeah, thank you. :)

Regards,
Wanpeng Li

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[RFC PATCH-tip v4 07/10] locking/rwsem: Change RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS for better disambiguation Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com> - 2016-08-19 04:40 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v4 07/10] locking/rwsem: Change RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS  for better disambiguation Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> - 2016-08-19 08:00 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH-tip v4 07/10] locking/rwsem: Change RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS  for better disambiguation Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> - 2016-08-22 04:20 +0200

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