locking/rwlocks: Introduce 'qrwlocks' - fair, queued rwlocks
This rwlock uses the arch_spin_lock_t as a waitqueue, and assuming the arch_spin_lock_t is a fair lock (ticket,mcs etc..) the resulting rwlock is a fair lock. It fits in the same 8 bytes as the regular rwlock_t by folding the reader and writer count into a single integer, using the remaining 4 bytes for the arch_spinlock_t. Architectures that can single-copy adress bytes can optimize queue_write_unlock() with a 0 write to the LSB (the write count). Performance as measured by Davidlohr Bueso (rwlock_t -> qrwlock_t): +--------------+-------------+---------------+ | Workload | #users | delta | +--------------+-------------+---------------+ | alltests | > 1400 | -4.83% | | custom | 0-100,> 100 | +1.43%,-1.57% | | high_systime | > 1000 | -2.61 | | shared | all | +0.32 | +--------------+-------------+---------------+ http://www.stgolabs.net/qrwlock-stuff/aim7-result...
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