Re: [patchset] Lockfree fd lookup 0 of 5

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 14:01:19 -0700 William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> I've found unusual results in this area. e.g. it does appear to matter
>> for mapping->tree_lock for database workloads that heavily share a
>> given file and access it in parallel. The radix tree walk, though
>> intuitively short, is long enough to make the rwlock a win in the
>> database-oriented uses and microbenchmarks starting around 4x.

On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 04:15:14PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> Thanks for the data point, because I had this patch I had sent
> to Rusty for 2.7.x which ripped rwlocks entirely out of the
> kernel.  We might have to toss that idea :-)

In all honesty, I'd rather use RCU, but that's a little more work than
most RCU conversions.


-- wli
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