Re: spinlock which can morph into a mutex
From: Miquel van Smoorenburg
Date: Fri Dec 18 2009 - 13:30:50 EST
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 18:14 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> I think I need a spinlock that can morph into a mutex ..
>
> Is the writer frequency and the possible contention so high that you
> need a spinlock at all ?
Possibly - I don't want to degrade the performance of existing code
(which uses a spinlock).
> Test it :)
Good point.
> If the mutex is still to heavy weight for you, then you can solve it
> without implementing another weird concurrency control:
>
> wait_event_(un)interruptible(&hash_wq, !hash_update_active);
>
> hash_update_active = 1;
> ....
> hash_update_active = 0;
> wake_up(&hash_wq);
Ah, ofcourse. Thanks for pointing that out!
Thanks everybody for your input. I gained quite a bit of insight.
Mike.
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