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From: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
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	Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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	x86@kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>,
	Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>,
	Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/8] qspinlock: Introducing a 4-byte queue spinlock implementation
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 09:58:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5315EA06.2090305@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140302133140.GA13830@redhat.com>

On 03/02/2014 08:31 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Forgot to ask...
>
> On 02/26, Waiman Long wrote:
>> +notify_next:
>> +	/*
>> +	 * Wait, if needed, until the next one in queue set up the next field
>> +	 */
>> +	while (!(next = ACCESS_ONCE(node->next)))
>> +		arch_mutex_cpu_relax();
>> +	/*
>> +	 * The next one in queue is now at the head
>> +	 */
>> +	smp_store_release(&next->wait, false);
> Do we really need smp_store_release()? It seems that we can rely on the
> control dependency here. And afaics there is no need to serialise this
> store with other changes in *lock, plus they all have mb's anyway.
>
> Oleg.
>

I am just following the current logic in the mcs_spin_unlock function. 
It is probably true that we don't need the release semantic in this 
particular case.

-Longman

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-04 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ 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 [this message]
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
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 1/8] qspinlock: Introducing a 4-byte queue spinlock implementation Waiman Long
2014-02-26 16:22   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-27 20:25     ` Waiman Long
2014-02-26 16:24   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-27 20:25     ` Waiman Long

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