On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 12:10 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote: > You can probably design something needing no more than 4 bytes per cpu, > and this thing could use non locked operations as bonus. > > like the following ... Coming back from my bike ride, here is a more polished version with proper synchronization/ barriers. struct percpu_rw_semaphore { /* percpu_sem_down_read() use the following in fast path */ unsigned int __percpu *active_counters; unsigned int __percpu *counters; struct rw_semaphore sem; /* used in slow path and by writers */ }; static inline int percpu_sem_init(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *p) { p->counters = alloc_percpu(unsigned int); if (!p->counters) return -ENOMEM; init_rwsem(&p->sem); rcu_assign_pointer(p->active_counters, p->counters); return 0; } static inline bool percpu_sem_down_read(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *p) { unsigned int __percpu *counters; rcu_read_lock(); counters = rcu_dereference(p->active_counters); if (counters) { this_cpu_inc(*counters); smp_wmb(); /* paired with smp_rmb() in percpu_count() */ rcu_read_unlock(); return true; } rcu_read_unlock(); down_read(&p->sem); return false; } static inline void percpu_sem_up_read(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *p, bool fastpath) { if (fastpath) this_cpu_dec(*p->counters); else up_read(&p->sem); } static inline unsigned int percpu_count(unsigned int __percpu *counters) { unsigned int total = 0; int cpu; for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) total += *per_cpu_ptr(counters, cpu); return total; } static inline void percpu_sem_down_write(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *p) { down_write(&p->sem); p->active_counters = NULL; synchronize_rcu(); smp_rmb(); /* paired with smp_wmb() in percpu_sem_down_read() */ while (percpu_count(p->counters)) schedule(); } static inline void percpu_sem_up_write(struct percpu_rw_semaphore *p) { rcu_assign_pointer(p->active_counters, p->counters); up_write(&p->sem); } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html