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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Filesystem Development <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-aio@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add support for semaphore-like structure with support for asynchronous I/O
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 12:12:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17130.1113649928@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050415234213.GC11761@kvack.org>

Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> wrote:

> 
> What about the use of atomic operations on frv?  Are they more lightweight 
> than a semaphore, making for a better fastpath?

What do you mean? Atomic ops don't compare to semaphores.

On FRV atomic ops don't disable interrupts; they reserve one of the eight
conditional execution flags at compile time and that flag is cleared by entry
to an exception, thus aborting the write instruction. See:

	Documentation/fujitsu/frv/atomic-ops.txt

I could try and improve the fastpath on the semaphores for FRV - and perhaps
should - but I implemented the semaphores before I'd thought of the clever way
to do atomic ops.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-16 11:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-30 21:51 [RFC] Add support for semaphore-like structure with support for asynchronous I/O Trond Myklebust
2005-03-30 22:34 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-30 23:17   ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-30 23:44     ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-31  0:02       ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-31 22:53     ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-01  0:13       ` Andrew Morton
2005-04-01  1:22         ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-01 14:12           ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-04-04 15:52             ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-04-04 16:22               ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-04-04 17:56                 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-04 17:56                   ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-05 15:46                   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-04-05 15:46                     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-04-06  1:20                     ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-06  5:17                       ` Bill Huey
2005-04-06  5:01                     ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-04-07 11:43                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-07 11:43                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-08 22:39                       ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-04-08 22:39                         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-04-08 23:31                         ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-10 14:08                           ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-04-15 16:13                         ` David Howells
2005-04-15 16:13                           ` David Howells
2005-04-15 22:42                           ` Trond Myklebust
2005-04-15 23:42                             ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-04-15 23:42                               ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-04-16 11:12                               ` David Howells [this message]
2005-04-16 11:06                             ` David Howells
2005-04-16 11:06                               ` David Howells
2005-04-04 16:39               ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-31  8:02 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-03-31 12:31   ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-31 17:09     ` Nikita Danilov
2005-03-31 17:22       ` Trond Myklebust
2005-03-31 17:32         ` Trond Myklebust

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