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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
	aswin@hp.com, Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/4] qrwlock: A queue read/write lock implementation
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 10:59:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131218185910.GS19211@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52B1ED2D.3020000@hp.com>

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 01:45:01PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 12/17/2013 02:21 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

[ . . . ]

> >>+	signal_next(lock,&node);
> >Good, this allows multiple readers to acquire the lock concurrently,
> >give or take memory latency compared to critical-section duration.
> >When the first writer shows up, it presumably spins on the lock word.
> >
> 
> Yes, that was the intention. The first writer that shows up will
> block succeeding readers from getting the lock.
> 
> BTW, what was the status of the TSO memory barrier patch? This patch
> has some partial dependency it.

I am hoping that it makes it into -tip soon, as I also have a patch that
depends on it.

							Thanx, Paul

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-12-18 18:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-22 19:04 [PATCH v7 0/4] qrwlock: Introducing a queue read/write lock implementation Waiman Long
2013-11-22 19:04 ` [PATCH v7 1/4] qrwlock: A " Waiman Long
2013-11-22 19:14   ` Linus Torvalds
2013-11-22 20:35     ` Waiman Long
2013-11-22 21:14       ` Linus Torvalds
2013-12-17 19:21   ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-12-17 19:27     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-12-17 19:49       ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-12-18 18:51       ` Waiman Long
2013-12-18 19:38       ` Andi Kleen
2013-12-18 19:42         ` Andi Kleen
2013-12-18 19:46         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-12-18 20:16           ` Andi Kleen
2013-12-18 18:45     ` Waiman Long
2013-12-18 18:45       ` Waiman Long
2013-12-18 18:59       ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2013-12-18 18:59         ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-12-18 19:16         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-12-18 19:16           ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-22 19:04 ` [PATCH v7 2/4] qrwlock x86: Enable x86 to use queue read/write lock Waiman Long
2013-11-22 19:04   ` Waiman Long
2013-12-17 19:22   ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-22 19:04 ` [PATCH v7 3/4] qrwlock: Use the mcs_spinlock helper functions for MCS queuing Waiman Long
2013-12-17 19:23   ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-22 19:04 ` [PATCH v7 4/4] qrwlock: Use smp_store_release() in write_unlock() Waiman Long
2013-12-17 19:24   ` Paul E. McKenney

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