On 2023-02-06 15:30:35 [+0100], Thomas Gleixner wrote: > What's the downside of actually forcing !RT readers into the slowpath > once there is a writer waiting? We always said that there are no RT users of rwsem. Therefore it shouldn't matter because we still assume that nothing depends on this. After all we had one a one reader implementation of rwsem and this is the first report (to my knowledge) of a fallout since it was changed to multi-reader. That said let me update Mel's patch and resend it without this bit. > Thanks, > > tglx Sebastian