rwsem: let RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS represent any number of waiting threads
authorMichel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:21:18 +0000 (17:21 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:45:11 +0000 (20:45 -0700)
Previously each waiting thread added a bias of RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS.  With
this change, the bias is added only once to indicate that the wait list is
non-empty.

This has a few nice properties which will be used in following changes:
- when the spinlock is held and the waiter list is known to be non-empty,
  count < RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS  <=>  there is an active writer on that sem
- count == RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS  <=>  there are waiting threads and no
                                     active readers/writers on that sem

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
lib/rwsem.c

index 94f2d7a9dc4f67d04374688cf572a969c8e51b0f..a3e68bf5932eaad7c8ea7d6fbf10c53bb8d35189 100644 (file)
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ __rwsem_do_wake(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int wake_type)
        struct rwsem_waiter *waiter;
        struct task_struct *tsk;
        struct list_head *next;
-       signed long oldcount, woken, loop;
+       signed long oldcount, woken, loop, adjustment;
 
        waiter = list_entry(sem->wait_list.next, struct rwsem_waiter, list);
        if (!(waiter->flags & RWSEM_WAITING_FOR_WRITE))
@@ -73,9 +73,12 @@ __rwsem_do_wake(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int wake_type)
         * write lock.  However, we only wake this writer if we can transition
         * the active part of the count from 0 -> 1
         */
+       adjustment = RWSEM_ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS;
+       if (waiter->list.next == &sem->wait_list)
+               adjustment -= RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS;
+
  try_again_write:
-       oldcount = rwsem_atomic_update(RWSEM_ACTIVE_BIAS, sem)
-                                               - RWSEM_ACTIVE_BIAS;
+       oldcount = rwsem_atomic_update(adjustment, sem) - adjustment;
        if (oldcount & RWSEM_ACTIVE_MASK)
                /* Someone grabbed the sem already */
                goto undo_write;
@@ -128,13 +131,15 @@ __rwsem_do_wake(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int wake_type)
 
        } while (waiter->flags & RWSEM_WAITING_FOR_READ);
 
-       loop = woken;
-       woken *= RWSEM_ACTIVE_BIAS - RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS;
+       adjustment = woken * RWSEM_ACTIVE_READ_BIAS;
+       if (waiter->flags & RWSEM_WAITING_FOR_READ)
+               /* hit end of list above */
+               adjustment -= RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS;
 
-       rwsem_atomic_add(woken, sem);
+       rwsem_atomic_add(adjustment, sem);
 
        next = sem->wait_list.next;
-       for (; loop > 0; loop--) {
+       for (loop = woken; loop > 0; loop--) {
                waiter = list_entry(next, struct rwsem_waiter, list);
                next = waiter->list.next;
                tsk = waiter->task;
@@ -153,7 +158,7 @@ __rwsem_do_wake(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int wake_type)
        /* undo the change to the active count, but check for a transition
         * 1->0 */
  undo_write:
-       if (rwsem_atomic_update(-RWSEM_ACTIVE_BIAS, sem) & RWSEM_ACTIVE_MASK)
+       if (rwsem_atomic_update(-adjustment, sem) & RWSEM_ACTIVE_MASK)
                goto out;
        goto try_again_write;
 }
@@ -175,6 +180,8 @@ rwsem_down_failed_common(struct rw_semaphore *sem,
        waiter->task = tsk;
        get_task_struct(tsk);
 
+       if (list_empty(&sem->wait_list))
+               adjustment += RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS;
        list_add_tail(&waiter->list, &sem->wait_list);
 
        /* we're now waiting on the lock, but no longer actively locking */
@@ -208,8 +215,7 @@ rwsem_down_read_failed(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
        struct rwsem_waiter waiter;
 
        waiter.flags = RWSEM_WAITING_FOR_READ;
-       rwsem_down_failed_common(sem, &waiter,
-                               RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS - RWSEM_ACTIVE_BIAS);
+       rwsem_down_failed_common(sem, &waiter, -RWSEM_ACTIVE_READ_BIAS);
        return sem;
 }
 
@@ -222,7 +228,7 @@ rwsem_down_write_failed(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
        struct rwsem_waiter waiter;
 
        waiter.flags = RWSEM_WAITING_FOR_WRITE;
-       rwsem_down_failed_common(sem, &waiter, -RWSEM_ACTIVE_BIAS);
+       rwsem_down_failed_common(sem, &waiter, -RWSEM_ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS);
 
        return sem;
 }