From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
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linux-kernel
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/8] qspinlock: Introducing a 4-byte queue spinlock implementation
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 14:31:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140302133140.GA13830@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1393475567-4453-2-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Forgot to ask...
On 02/26, Waiman Long wrote:
>
> +notify_next:
> + /*
> + * Wait, if needed, until the next one in queue set up the next field
> + */
> + while (!(next = ACCESS_ONCE(node->next)))
> + arch_mutex_cpu_relax();
> + /*
> + * The next one in queue is now at the head
> + */
> + smp_store_release(&next->wait, false);
Do we really need smp_store_release()? It seems that we can rely on the
control dependency here. And afaics there is no need to serialise this
store with other changes in *lock, plus they all have mb's anyway.
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-02 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-27 4:32 [PATCH v5 0/8] qspinlock: a 4-byte queue spinlock with PV support Waiman Long
2014-02-27 4:32 ` [PATCH v5 1/8] qspinlock: Introducing a 4-byte queue spinlock implementation Waiman Long
2014-03-02 13:12 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-03-02 13:12 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-03-04 14:46 ` Waiman Long
2014-03-04 14:46 ` Waiman Long
2014-03-04 14:46 ` Waiman Long
2014-03-02 13:31 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2014-03-04 14:58 ` Waiman Long
2014-03-04 14:58 ` Waiman Long
2014-03-04 14:58 ` Waiman Long
2014-03-02 13:31 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-02-27 4:32 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 4:32 ` [PATCH v5 2/8] qspinlock, x86: Enable x86-64 to use queue spinlock Waiman Long
2014-03-02 14:10 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-03-02 14:10 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-03-04 15:06 ` Waiman Long
2014-03-04 15:06 ` Waiman Long
2014-03-04 15:06 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 4:32 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 4:32 ` [PATCH v5 3/8] qspinlock, x86: Add x86 specific optimization for 2 contending tasks Waiman Long
2014-02-27 4:32 ` Waiman Long
2014-03-02 13:16 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-03-02 13:16 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-03-04 14:54 ` Waiman Long
2014-03-04 14:54 ` Waiman Long
2014-03-04 14:54 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 4:32 ` [PATCH RFC v5 4/8] pvqspinlock, x86: Allow unfair spinlock in a real PV environment Waiman Long
2014-02-27 4:32 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 4:32 ` [PATCH RFC v5 5/8] pvqspinlock, x86: Enable unfair queue spinlock in a KVM guest Waiman Long
2014-02-27 4:32 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 4:32 ` [PATCH RFC v5 6/8] pvqspinlock, x86: Rename paravirt_ticketlocks_enabled Waiman Long
2014-02-27 4:32 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 4:32 ` [PATCH RFC v5 7/8] pvqspinlock, x86: Add qspinlock para-virtualization support Waiman Long
2014-02-27 4:32 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 4:32 ` [PATCH RFC v5 8/8] pvqspinlock, x86: Enable KVM to use qspinlock's PV support Waiman Long
2014-02-27 4:32 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 8:37 ` [PATCH v5 0/8] qspinlock: a 4-byte queue spinlock with " Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-27 8:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-27 18:25 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 18:25 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 18:25 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 8:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-02-26 15:14 Waiman Long
2014-02-26 15:14 ` [PATCH v5 1/8] qspinlock: Introducing a 4-byte queue spinlock implementation Waiman Long
2014-02-26 15:14 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-26 16:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-26 16:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-27 20:25 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 20:25 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-26 16:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-27 20:25 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 20:25 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-26 16:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
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