RE: [PATCH v5 4/8] thunderbolt: Communication with the ICM (firmware)

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On Sat, Jul 30 2016, 12:48 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 02:02:24PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 11:15:17 +0300
> > Amir Levy <amir.jer.levy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > +static LIST_HEAD(controllers_list); static
> > > +DECLARE_RWSEM(controllers_list_rwsem);
> >
> > Why use a semaphore when simple spinlock or mutex would be better?
> 
> And never use a RW semaphore unless you can benchmark the difference
> from a normal lock.  If you can't benchmark it, then don't use it...

I used RW semaphore since most of the time the list will be accessed for read.
Since it is used in non-time sensitive flows, I'll change it to mutex.
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