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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	1vier1@web.de, Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
	Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/4 V4] Clarify/standardize memory barriers for lock/unlock
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 15:34:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1472477669-27508-1-git-send-email-manfred@colorfullife.com> (raw)

Hi,

V4: Docu/comment improvements, remove unnecessary barrier for x86.
V3: Bugfix for arm64
V2: Include updated documentation for rcutree patch

As discussed before:
If a high-scalability locking scheme is built with multiple
spinlocks, then often additional memory barriers are required.

The documentation was not as clear as possible, and memory
barriers were missing / superfluous in the implementation.

Patch 1: Documentation, define one standard barrier, update ipc/sem.c
Patch 2: Update rcutree
Patch 3: Update nf_conntrack
Patch 4: Update for qspinlock: smp_mb__after_spin_lock is free.

Patch 3 is larger than required, it rewrites the conntrack logic
with the code from ipc/sem.c. I think the new code is simpler
and more realtime-friendly.

Please review!

@Andrew: The patches are relative to mmots.
Could you include them in your tree, with the target of including in
linux-next?

--
	Manfred

             reply	other threads:[~2016-08-29 13:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-29 13:34 Manfred Spraul [this message]
2016-08-29 13:34 ` [PATCH 1/4 v4] spinlock: Document memory barrier rules Manfred Spraul
2016-08-29 17:38   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2016-08-29 13:34 ` [PATCH 2/4 V4] spinlock.h: Move smp_mb__after_unlock_lock to spinlock.h Manfred Spraul
2016-08-29 13:34 ` [PATCH 3/4 V4] net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core: update memory barriers Manfred Spraul
2016-08-29 13:34 ` [PATCH 4/4 V4] qspinlock for x86: smp_mb__after_spin_lock() is free Manfred Spraul

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