Re: [RFC][PATCH RT] rwsem_rt: Another (more sane) approach to mulitreader rt locks

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 11:42 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 17:06 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 10:03 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > 
> > > where readers may nest (the same task may grab the same rwsem for
> > > read multiple times), but only one task may hold the rwsem at any
> > > given
> > > time (for read or write).
> > 
> > Humm, that sounds iffy, rwsem isn't a recursive read lock only rwlock_t
> > is.
> 
> In that case, current -rt is broken. As it has it being a recursive lock
> (without my patch).
> 

Why wouldn't it be recursive. If two different tasks are allowed to grab
a read lock at the same time, why can't the same task grab a read lock
twice? As long as it releases it the same amount of times.

Now you can't grab a read lock if you have the write lock.

-- Steve


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