On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:35:34PM +0100, D . W . Howells wrote:
> This patch (made against linux-2.4.4-pre6) makes a number of changes to the
> rwsem implementation:
> 
>  (1) Everything in try #2
> 
> plus
> 
>  (2) Changes proposed by Linus for the generic semaphore code.
> 
>  (3) Ideas from Andrea and how he implemented his semaphores.

I benchmarked try3 on top of pre6 and I get this:

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RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK y in rwsem-2.4.4-pre6 + your latest #try3

rw

reads taken: 5842496
writes taken: 3016649
reads taken: 5823381
writes taken: 3006773

r1

reads taken: 13309316
reads taken: 13311722

r2

reads taken: 5010534
reads taken: 5023185

ro

reads taken: 3850228
reads taken: 3845954

w1

writes taken: 13012701
writes taken: 13021716

wo

writes taken: 1825789
writes taken: 1802560

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RWSEM_XCHGADD y in rwsem-2.4.4-pre6 + your latest #try3

rw

reads taken: 5789542
writes taken: 2989478
reads taken: 5801777
writes taken: 2995669

r1

reads taken: 16922653
reads taken: 16946132

r2

reads taken: 5650211
reads taken: 5647272

ro

reads taken: 4956250
reads taken: 4959828

w1

writes taken: 15431139
writes taken: 15439790

wo

writes taken: 813756
writes taken: 816005

graph updated attached. so in short my fast path is still quite faster (r1/w1),
slow path is comparable now (I still win in all tests but wo which is probably
the less interesting one in real life [write contention]). I still have room to
improve the wo test [write contention] by spending more icache btw but it
probably doesn't worth.

Andrea