From: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>,
Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
greg@kroah.com, matthew@wil.cx, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
ak@muc.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] pci: Block config access during BIST (resend)
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 08:58:18 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050907145818.GA25409@colo.lackof.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17182.32625.930500.874251@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 03:49:37PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Maybe, but it seems like a bad idea to me. It's longer, it's less
> obvious what's happening,
I would argue it more obvious. People looking at the code
are immediately going to realize it was a deliberate choice to
not use a spinlock.
> and it precludes the sorts of optimization
> that we do on ppc64 where a cpu that is waiting for a lock can tell
> give its time slice to the cpu that is holding the lock (on systems
> where the hypervisor time-slices multiple virtual cpus on one physical
> cpu).
relax_cpu() doesn't do that?
> What's wrong with just doing spin_lock/spin_unlock?
it's not wrong - just misleading IMHO. There is no
"critical section" in that particular chunk of code.
If relax_cpu doesn't allow time-slice donation, then I guess
spinlock/unlock with only a comment inside it explain why
would be ok too.
thanks,
grant
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-07 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-10 14:49 [PATCH 1/1] pci: Block config access during BIST (resend) brking
2005-01-10 16:10 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-10 16:25 ` Brian King
2005-01-10 16:29 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-10 22:57 ` Brian King
2005-01-11 14:37 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-11 17:33 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-11 22:17 ` Brian King
2005-01-13 15:36 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-13 15:35 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-13 18:03 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-13 18:46 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-13 20:23 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-13 19:44 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-13 21:50 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-15 0:33 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-15 1:44 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-15 1:01 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-15 6:20 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-16 0:58 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-16 4:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-16 4:48 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-16 20:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-16 22:07 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-16 22:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-16 21:10 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-18 15:14 ` Brian King
2005-01-18 23:31 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-18 23:36 ` Brian King
2005-01-19 22:40 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-26 16:34 ` Brian King
2005-01-26 22:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-27 15:53 ` Alan Cox
2005-01-27 18:44 ` Brian King
2005-01-27 23:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-28 14:35 ` Brian King
2005-02-01 7:27 ` Greg KH
2005-02-01 15:12 ` Brian King
2005-02-01 15:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-02-01 17:35 ` Brian King
2005-02-01 17:47 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-02-01 19:01 ` Brian King
2005-02-01 23:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-02 15:33 ` Brian King
2005-02-08 20:08 ` Greg KH
2005-06-21 16:08 ` Brian King
2005-08-23 15:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Brian King
2005-08-23 15:14 ` [PATCH 2/2] ipr: " Brian King
2005-09-01 23:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] pci: " Andrew Morton
2005-09-02 23:56 ` Brian King
2005-09-02 22:43 ` Grant Grundler
2005-09-02 23:11 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-09-03 0:08 ` Grant Grundler
2005-09-03 23:37 ` Brian King
2005-09-03 19:39 ` Grant Grundler
2005-09-05 18:31 ` Brian King
2005-09-06 4:48 ` Grant Grundler
2005-09-06 14:28 ` Brian King
2005-09-07 5:49 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-09-07 14:58 ` Grant Grundler [this message]
2005-09-07 22:39 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-09-08 1:21 ` Grant Grundler
2005-09-08 3:05 ` Brian King
2005-09-08 4:08 ` Grant Grundler
2005-02-01 18:58 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Greg KH
2005-02-01 23:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-01 22:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-01-10 19:23 ` Alan Cox
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