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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 02/12] x86/ticketlock: convert spin loop to C
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:07:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1280761639.1923.213.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cf01e01095f802dc5082e82a8e96c84903e929a6.1279328276.git.jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>

On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 18:03 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> +       register union {
> +               struct __raw_tickets tickets;
> +               unsigned short slock;
> +       } inc = { .slock = 1 << TICKET_SHIFT };

  register arch_spinlock_t inc = { .tickets = { .head = 1, .tail = 0 } };

>From a quick look you can basically replace all TICKET_SHIFT usage (1 <<
TICKET_SHIFT) with such a constant.

[ Also, does gcc really listen to the register hint these days? ]

> +       asm volatile (LOCK_PREFIX "xaddw %w0, %1\n"
> +                     : "+Q" (inc), "+m" (lock->slock) : : "memory", "cc");

 "+Q" (inc->slock)

> +       for (;;) {
> +               if (inc.tickets.head == inc.tickets.tail)
> +                       return;
> +               cpu_relax();
> +               inc.tickets.head = ACCESS_ONCE(lock->tickets.head);
> +       }
> +       barrier();              /* make sure nothing creeps before the lock is taken */
>  } 

How will it ever get to that barrier() ?

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-02 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-17  1:03 [PATCH RFC 00/12] X86 ticket lock cleanups and improvements Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-17  1:03 ` [PATCH RFC 03/12] x86/ticketlock: Use C for __ticket_spin_unlock Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-20 15:38   ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-07-20 16:17     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-08-06 17:47       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-06 20:03         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-17  1:03 ` [PATCH RFC 04/12] x86/ticketlock: make large and small ticket versions of spin_lock the same Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-17  1:03 ` [PATCH RFC 08/12] x86/ticketlock: collapse a layer of functions Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-17  1:03 ` [PATCH RFC 12/12] x86/pvticketlock: use callee-save for unlock_kick as well Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-17  1:03 ` [PATCH RFC 09/12] xen/pvticketlock: Xen implementation for PV ticket locks Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-09-26 11:39   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-09-26 22:34     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-01-18 16:27       ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-01-19  1:28         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-17  1:03 ` [PATCH RFC 01/12] x86/ticketlock: clean up types and accessors Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-17  1:03 ` [PATCH RFC 06/12] x86/ticketlock: make __ticket_spin_trylock common Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-17  1:03 ` [PATCH RFC 11/12] x86/pvticketlock: use callee-save for lock_spinning Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-17  1:03 ` [PATCH RFC 07/12] x86/spinlocks: replace pv spinlocks with pv ticketlocks Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-17  1:03 ` [PATCH RFC 02/12] x86/ticketlock: convert spin loop to C Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-08-02 15:07   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-08-02 15:17     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-08-06 12:43       ` Jan Beulich
2010-08-06 14:53         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-08-06 20:17           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-06 20:33             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-08-06 21:09               ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-06 22:03                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-17  1:03 ` [PATCH RFC 10/12] x86/pvticketlock: keep count of blocked cpus Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-08-03  8:32   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-03  9:44     ` Nick Piggin
2010-08-03 15:45     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-17  1:03 ` [PATCH RFC 05/12] x86/ticketlock: make __ticket_spin_lock common Jeremy Fitzhardinge
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-07-03  0:06 [PATCH RFC 02/12] x86/ticketlock: convert spin loop to C Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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