Re: [PATCH v2] MCS spinlock: Use smp_cond_load_acquire()

[Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>]

On Wed, 2016-04-13 at 10:43 -0700, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 08:02:17PM -0700, Jason Low wrote:
> > For qspinlocks on ARM64, we would like to use WFE instead
> > of purely spinning. Qspinlocks internally have lock
> > contenders spin on an MCS lock.
> > 
> > Update arch_mcs_spin_lock_contended() such that it uses
> > the new smp_cond_load_acquire() so that ARM64 can also
> > override this spin loop with its own implementation using WFE.
> > 
> > On x86, it can also cheaper to use this than spinning on
> > smp_load_acquire().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
> 
> FWIW, we just override arch_mcs_spin_lock_contended entirely for arch/arm/
> and use wfe there so we could do the same for arm64 in mainline already.

Right, I was also thinking about that, although when we use
smp_cond_load_acquire() in the generic implementation, would we just end
up overriding it for the arch/arm64 version with the same thing?  :)

Jason