From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] Directed yield: cpu_relax variants for spinlocks and rw-locks.
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:06:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1158321967.23993.15.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17674.38270.541900.580212@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 21:58 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > In order to implement a spinlock that yields the cpu in favour of
> > the current lock holder cpu_relax variants for spinlocks and
> > read/write locks are needed. The new _raw_spin_relax, _raw_read_relax
> > and _raw_write_relax primitives have an additional argument: the
> > pointer to the lock structure.
>
> This will be useful on powerpc as well. We need:
>
> #define _raw_spin_relax(lock) __spin_yield(lock)
> #define _raw_read_relax(lock) __rw_yield(lock)
> #define _raw_write_relax(lock) __rw_yield(lock)
>
> in order to define your new primitives in terms of what we already
> have defined in asm-powerpc/spinlock.h.
Ahh, I haven't seen that powerpc already has a __spin_yield. I'll change
the patch accordingly.
--
blue skies,
Martin.
Martin Schwidefsky
Linux for zSeries Development & Services
IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH
"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-15 11:30 [patch 1/2] Directed yield: cpu_relax variants for spinlocks and rw-locks Martin Schwidefsky
2006-09-15 11:58 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-09-15 12:06 ` Martin Schwidefsky [this message]
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