From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
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linux-kernel
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/8] qspinlock, x86: Enable x86-64 to use queue spinlock
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 15:10:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140302141058.GA15629@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1393475567-4453-3-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com>
On 02/26, Waiman Long wrote:
>
> +#define _ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_8_16_BITS_OPS
> +
> +/*
> + * x86-64 specific queue spinlock union structure
> + */
> +union arch_qspinlock {
> + struct qspinlock slock;
> + u8 lock; /* Lock bit */
> +};
And this enables the optimized version of queue_spin_setlock().
But why does it check ACCESS_ONCE(qlock->lock) == 0 ? This is called
right after queue_get_lock_qcode() returns 0, this locked should be
likely unlocked.
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-02 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ 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
2014-03-04 14:46 ` Waiman Long
2014-03-02 13:31 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-03-04 14:58 ` 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 [this message]
2014-03-04 15:06 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-27 4:32 ` [PATCH v5 3/8] qspinlock, x86: Add x86 specific optimization for 2 contending tasks Waiman Long
2014-03-02 13:16 ` Oleg Nesterov
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 ` [PATCH RFC v5 5/8] pvqspinlock, x86: Enable unfair queue spinlock in a KVM guest 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 ` [PATCH RFC v5 7/8] pvqspinlock, x86: Add qspinlock para-virtualization support 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 8:37 ` [PATCH v5 0/8] qspinlock: a 4-byte queue spinlock with " Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-27 18:25 ` Waiman Long
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-02-26 15:14 Waiman Long
2014-02-26 15:14 ` [PATCH v5 2/8] qspinlock, x86: Enable x86-64 to use queue spinlock Waiman Long
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