From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
Mikael Pettersson <mikpelinux@gmail.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Miroslav Franc <mfranc@redhat.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bit fields && data tearing
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 20:20:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <540E7211.9020909@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1410231392.2028.15.camel@jarvis.lan>
On 09/08/2014 07:56 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, the extra requirement I added is basically nonsense, since the
>> only issue is what instructions the compiler is emitting. So if compiler
>> thinks the alignment is natural and combines the writes -- ok. If the
>> compiler thinks the alignment is off and doesn't combine the writes --
>> also ok.
>
> Yes, I think I can agree that the only real problem is gcc thinking the
> store or load needs splitting.
>
That seems much saner, and yes, that applies to any architecture which
needs unaligned references. Now, if the references are *actually*
unaligned they can end up being split even on x86, especially if they
cross cache line boundaries.
-hpa
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
Mikael Pettersson <mikpelinux@gmail.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Miroslav Franc <mfranc@redhat.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bit fields && data tearing
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 03:20:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <540E7211.9020909@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1410231392.2028.15.camel@jarvis.lan>
On 09/08/2014 07:56 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, the extra requirement I added is basically nonsense, since the
>> only issue is what instructions the compiler is emitting. So if compiler
>> thinks the alignment is natural and combines the writes -- ok. If the
>> compiler thinks the alignment is off and doesn't combine the writes --
>> also ok.
>
> Yes, I think I can agree that the only real problem is gcc thinking the
> store or load needs splitting.
>
That seems much saner, and yes, that applies to any architecture which
needs unaligned references. Now, if the references are *actually*
unaligned they can end up being split even on x86, especially if they
cross cache line boundaries.
-hpa
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
Mikael Pettersson <mikpelinux@gmail.com>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Miroslav Franc <mfranc@redhat.com>,
Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: bit fields && data tearing
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 20:20:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <540E7211.9020909@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1410231392.2028.15.camel@jarvis.lan>
On 09/08/2014 07:56 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, the extra requirement I added is basically nonsense, since the
>> only issue is what instructions the compiler is emitting. So if compiler
>> thinks the alignment is natural and combines the writes -- ok. If the
>> compiler thinks the alignment is off and doesn't combine the writes --
>> also ok.
>
> Yes, I think I can agree that the only real problem is gcc thinking the
> store or load needs splitting.
>
That seems much saner, and yes, that applies to any architecture which
needs unaligned references. Now, if the references are *actually*
unaligned they can end up being split even on x86, especially if they
cross cache line boundaries.
-hpa
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2014-07-12 18:13 bit fields && data tearing Oleg Nesterov
2014-07-12 18:13 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-07-12 20:51 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-07-12 20:51 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-07-12 23:34 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-12 23:34 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-13 12:29 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-07-13 12:29 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-07-13 13:15 ` Peter Hurley
2014-07-13 13:15 ` Peter Hurley
2014-07-13 22:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-13 22:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-15 13:54 ` Peter Hurley
2014-07-15 13:54 ` Peter Hurley
2014-07-15 15:02 ` Richard Henderson
2014-07-15 15:02 ` Richard Henderson
2014-09-03 22:51 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-03 22:51 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-03 22:51 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-03 23:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-09-03 23:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-09-03 23:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-09-03 23:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-09-04 8:43 ` David Laight
2014-09-04 8:43 ` David Laight
2014-09-04 8:43 ` David Laight
2014-09-04 8:43 ` David Laight
2014-09-04 9:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-09-04 9:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-09-04 9:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-09-04 22:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-04 22:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-04 22:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-05 0:59 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 0:59 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 0:59 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 2:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-05 2:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-05 2:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-05 2:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-05 15:31 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 15:31 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 15:31 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 15:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-05 15:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-05 15:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-08 17:52 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-08 17:52 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-08 17:52 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-08 17:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-08 17:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-08 17:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-08 19:17 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-08 19:17 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-08 19:17 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-09 11:18 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-09 11:18 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-09 11:18 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-08 22:47 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-08 22:47 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-08 22:47 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-09 1:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-09 1:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-09 1:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-09 11:14 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-09 11:14 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-09 11:14 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-11 10:04 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-11 10:04 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-11 10:04 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-11 16:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-11 16:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-11 16:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-11 20:01 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-11 20:01 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-11 20:01 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-14 23:24 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-14 23:24 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-14 23:24 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-22 19:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-22 19:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-22 19:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-23 18:19 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-23 18:19 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-23 18:19 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-23 18:39 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-23 18:39 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-23 18:39 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-23 18:39 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-08 18:13 ` James Bottomley
2014-09-08 18:13 ` James Bottomley
2014-09-08 18:13 ` James Bottomley
2014-09-10 20:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-10 20:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-10 20:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-10 21:10 ` Rob Landley
2014-09-10 21:10 ` Rob Landley
2014-09-10 21:10 ` Rob Landley
2014-09-05 2:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-05 2:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-05 2:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-05 8:16 ` Michael Cree
2014-09-05 8:16 ` Michael Cree
2014-09-05 8:16 ` Michael Cree
2014-09-05 8:16 ` Michael Cree
2014-09-05 18:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 18:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 18:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 18:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 19:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-05 19:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-05 19:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-05 20:01 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 20:01 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 20:01 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 20:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-05 20:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-05 20:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-05 20:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-05 20:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-05 20:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-05 20:19 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 20:19 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 20:19 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 18:50 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 18:50 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 19:05 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 19:05 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 19:05 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 19:24 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 19:24 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 19:24 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 20:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 20:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 20:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 20:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 19:38 ` Marc Gauthier
2014-09-05 19:38 ` Marc Gauthier
2014-09-05 19:38 ` Marc Gauthier
2014-09-05 20:14 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 20:14 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 20:14 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 20:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-05 20:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-05 20:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-05 20:42 ` Michael Cree
2014-09-05 20:42 ` Michael Cree
2014-09-05 20:42 ` Michael Cree
2014-09-05 20:43 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 20:43 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 20:43 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 20:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-09-05 20:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-09-05 20:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-09-05 21:05 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 21:05 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 21:05 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 20:39 ` Michael Cree
2014-09-05 20:39 ` Michael Cree
2014-09-05 20:39 ` Michael Cree
2014-09-05 21:12 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 21:12 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 21:27 ` Michael Cree
2014-09-05 21:27 ` Michael Cree
2014-09-05 21:27 ` Michael Cree
2014-09-05 20:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 20:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 20:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-04 8:57 ` Mikael Pettersson
2014-09-04 8:57 ` Mikael Pettersson
2014-09-04 8:57 ` Mikael Pettersson
2014-09-04 8:57 ` Mikael Pettersson
2014-09-04 9:09 ` Jakub Jelinek
2014-09-04 9:09 ` Jakub Jelinek
2014-09-04 9:09 ` Jakub Jelinek
2014-09-04 12:24 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-04 12:24 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-04 12:24 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-04 12:29 ` Jakub Jelinek
2014-09-04 12:29 ` Jakub Jelinek
2014-09-04 12:29 ` Jakub Jelinek
2014-09-04 16:50 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-04 16:50 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-04 16:50 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-04 16:50 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-09-04 19:42 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-04 19:42 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-04 19:42 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-04 22:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-04 22:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-04 22:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-05 0:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 0:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 0:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 1:57 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 1:57 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 1:57 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 2:11 ` James Bottomley
2014-09-05 2:11 ` James Bottomley
2014-09-05 2:11 ` James Bottomley
2014-09-05 2:47 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 2:47 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 2:47 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 4:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 4:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 4:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-05 8:30 ` David Laight
2014-09-05 8:30 ` David Laight
2014-09-05 8:30 ` David Laight
2014-09-05 8:30 ` David Laight
2014-09-05 12:31 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 12:31 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 12:31 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-05 12:37 ` David Laight
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2014-09-05 12:37 ` David Laight
2014-09-05 12:37 ` David Laight
2014-09-05 16:17 ` Peter Hurley
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2014-09-05 16:17 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-25 16:12 ` Pavel Machek
2014-09-25 16:12 ` Pavel Machek
2014-09-25 16:12 ` Pavel Machek
2014-09-07 5:07 ` James Bottomley
2014-09-07 5:07 ` James Bottomley
2014-09-07 5:07 ` James Bottomley
2014-09-07 16:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-07 16:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-07 16:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-07 19:04 ` James Bottomley
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2014-09-07 19:04 ` James Bottomley
2014-09-07 20:41 ` Peter Hurley
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2014-09-08 5:50 ` James Bottomley
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2014-09-08 20:45 ` Chris Metcalf
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2014-09-08 20:45 ` Chris Metcalf
2014-09-08 20:45 ` Chris Metcalf
2014-09-08 22:43 ` James Bottomley
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2014-09-09 2:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2014-09-08 23:30 ` Peter Hurley
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2014-09-07 23:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2014-09-08 18:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-08 19:09 ` James Bottomley
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2014-09-08 19:09 ` James Bottomley
2014-09-08 19:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-08 19:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2014-09-08 19:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-08 22:39 ` James Bottomley
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2014-09-09 2:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-09 2:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
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