From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, "Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] rwlock: prevent readers from starving writers
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2022 12:01:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJFAV8wraW0g-uWWHM1pxueqqjjQ0-VZHTZ2QtNVTBtnmzX_MQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220719202750.563166-1-stephen@networkplumber.org>
On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 10:28 PM Stephen Hemminger
<stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote:
>
> Modify reader/writer lock to avoid starvation of writer. The previous
> implementation would cause a writer to get starved if readers kept
> acquiring the lock. The new version uses an additional bit to indicate
> that a writer is waiting and which keeps readers from starving the
> writer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> Acked-by: Morten Brørup <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
Applied, thanks.
--
David Marchand
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-03 10:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-07 20:12 [RFC] " Stephen Hemminger
2022-07-08 19:22 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2022-07-08 22:04 ` Morten Brørup
2022-07-09 16:22 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-07-09 16:25 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-07-19 20:27 ` [PATCH v2] " Stephen Hemminger
2022-07-19 21:52 ` Morten Brørup
2022-07-19 22:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-07-20 6:48 ` Morten Brørup
2022-10-03 10:01 ` David Marchand [this message]
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