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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2015-11-23 15:23:55 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-09-22 15:25:54 +0200
commit259d69b7f056bc9a543c7d184e791ef6c2775081 (patch)
treee7db40679995eec5e61bc105e095db645d4e5f04 /fs/locks.c
parent7c3f654d8e18942295eeda42f7d75494443980e0 (diff)
locking/percpu-rwsem: Add down_read_preempt_disable()
Provide a down_read()/up_read() variant that keeps preemption disabled over the whole thing, when possible. This avoids a needless preemption point for constructs such as: percpu_down_read(&global_rwsem); spin_lock(&lock); ... spin_unlock(&lock); percpu_up_read(&global_rwsem); Which perturbs timings. In particular it was found to cure a performance regression in a follow up patch in fs/locks.c Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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