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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com>
Cc: "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com" <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>,
	"linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: arc_usr_cmpxchg and preemption
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 12:28:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180315112829.GW4064@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1521105128.11552.64.camel@synopsys.com>

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 09:12:09AM +0000, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-03-15 at 09:18 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > Also, it might make sense to stuff this implementation in some lib/ file
> > somewhere and make all platforms that need it use the same code, afaict
> > there really isn't anything platform specific to it.
> 
> Not clear which part do you mean here.
> Are you talking about entire cmpxchg syscall implementation?

Yep.

> Do you think there're many users of that quite an inefficient
> [compared to proper HW version] atomic exchange?

I think there's a bunch of architectures that are in the same boat.
m68k, arm, mips was mentioned. Sure, the moment an arch has hardware
support you don't need the syscall anymore.

I was just thinking it would be good to have a common implementation (if
possible) rather than 4-5 different copies of basically the same thing.

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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com>
Cc: "Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com" <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: arc_usr_cmpxchg and preemption
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 12:28:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180315112829.GW4064@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
Message-ID: <20180315112829.DzFk1N9zTSP9D7crqYvMKTrgWUhGw4IZScJhbhoDU6E@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1521105128.11552.64.camel@synopsys.com>

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 09:12:09AM +0000, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-03-15 at 09:18 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > Also, it might make sense to stuff this implementation in some lib/ file
> > somewhere and make all platforms that need it use the same code, afaict
> > there really isn't anything platform specific to it.
> 
> Not clear which part do you mean here.
> Are you talking about entire cmpxchg syscall implementation?

Yep.

> Do you think there're many users of that quite an inefficient
> [compared to proper HW version] atomic exchange?

I think there's a bunch of architectures that are in the same boat.
m68k, arm, mips was mentioned. Sure, the moment an arch has hardware
support you don't need the syscall anymore.

I was just thinking it would be good to have a common implementation (if
possible) rather than 4-5 different copies of basically the same thing.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-15 11:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1521045375.11552.27.camel@synopsys.com>
2018-03-14 16:58 ` arc_usr_cmpxchg and preemption Vineet Gupta
2018-03-14 16:58   ` Vineet Gupta
2018-03-14 17:53   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-03-14 17:53     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-03-14 18:20     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-03-14 18:20       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-03-14 20:38     ` Alexey Brodkin
2018-03-14 20:38       ` Alexey Brodkin
2018-03-14 20:55       ` Vineet Gupta
2018-03-14 20:55         ` Vineet Gupta
2018-03-15  8:18       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-03-15  8:18         ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-03-15  9:12         ` Alexey Brodkin
2018-03-15  9:12           ` Alexey Brodkin
2018-03-15 11:28           ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2018-03-15 11:28             ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-03-15 19:03             ` Alexey Brodkin
2018-03-15 19:03               ` Alexey Brodkin
2018-03-16  7:55               ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-03-16  7:55                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-03-16 18:12               ` Max Filippov
2018-03-16 18:12                 ` Max Filippov
2018-03-16 17:33     ` Alexey Brodkin
2018-03-16 17:33       ` Alexey Brodkin
2018-03-16 17:54       ` Vineet Gupta
2018-03-16 17:54         ` Vineet Gupta
2018-03-16 17:58         ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-03-16 17:58           ` Peter Zijlstra

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