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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	"Chandramouleeswaran, Aswin" <aswin@hp.com>,
	"Norton, Scott J" <scott.norton@hp.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] spinlock: New spinlock_refcount.h for lockless update of refcount
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 03:37:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130627013714.GM6123@two.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51CB9450.80601@hp.com>

> It will be hard to know what changes will be needed without knowing
> the exact semantics of the spinlock functions with lock elision. Can
> you explain a little more what bizarre semantics you are referring
> to?

Totally independent of elision.

For example, what semantics does spin_unlock_wait() have with a ticket
lock. Where in the queue does it wait?
It doesn't really make sense with a ticket lock.

What semantics would lockdep put on it?

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-27  1:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-26 17:43 [PATCH v2 0/2] Lockless update of reference count protected by spinlock Waiman Long
2013-06-26 17:43 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] spinlock: New spinlock_refcount.h for lockless update of refcount Waiman Long
2013-06-26 20:17   ` Andi Kleen
2013-06-26 21:07     ` Waiman Long
2013-06-26 21:22       ` Andi Kleen
2013-06-26 23:26         ` Waiman Long
2013-06-27  1:06           ` Andi Kleen
2013-06-27  1:15             ` Waiman Long
2013-06-27  1:24               ` Waiman Long
2013-06-27  1:37                 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2013-06-27 14:56                   ` Waiman Long
2013-06-28 13:46                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-06-29 20:30                       ` Waiman Long
2013-06-26 23:27         ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-06-26 23:06   ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-06-27  0:16     ` Waiman Long
2013-06-27 14:44       ` Thomas Gleixner
2013-06-29 21:03         ` Waiman Long
2013-06-27  0:26     ` Waiman Long
2013-06-29 17:45   ` Linus Torvalds
2013-06-29 20:23     ` Waiman Long
2013-06-29 21:34       ` Waiman Long
2013-06-29 22:11         ` Linus Torvalds
2013-06-29 22:34           ` Waiman Long
2013-06-29 21:58       ` Linus Torvalds
2013-06-29 22:47         ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-01 13:40           ` Waiman Long
2013-06-26 17:43 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] dcache: Locklessly update d_count whenever possible Waiman Long

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