[PATCH 1/2] rwsem: add rwsem_is_contended V2

From: Josef Bacik
Date: Thu Sep 19 2013 - 11:48:16 EST


Btrfs needs a simple way to know if it needs to let go of it's read lock on a
rwsem. Introduce rwsem_is_contended to check to see if there are any waiters on
this rwsem currently. This is just a hueristic, it is meant to be light and not
100% accurate and called by somebody already holding on to the rwsem in either
read or write. Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
V1->V2: took everybodys suggestions and simplified it to just one function in
rwsem.h so it works for both the spinlock case and non-spinlock case.

include/linux/rwsem.h | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/rwsem.h b/include/linux/rwsem.h
index 0616ffe..c340493 100644
--- a/include/linux/rwsem.h
+++ b/include/linux/rwsem.h
@@ -75,6 +75,19 @@ do { \
} while (0)

/*
+ * This is the same regardless of which rwsem implementation that is being used.
+ * It is just a heuristic meant to be called by somebody alreadying holding the
+ * rwsem to see if somebody from the opposite type is wanting access to the
+ * lock.
+ */
+static inline int rwsem_is_contended(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
+{
+ if (!list_empty(&sem->wait_list))
+ return 1;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/*
* lock for reading
*/
extern void down_read(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
--
1.8.3.1

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