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SubjectRe: [PATCH] locking/rwlocks: do not starve writers
On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 9:04 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 07:45:14PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
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> > Were rwlocks always unfair, and we have been lucky ?
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> Yes.

So I wonder why we replaced eventpoll spinlock with an rwlock.

Writing a repro is probably more difficult for eventpoll though.

We definitely had production issues after commit a218cc491420

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