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From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
To: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch,locking: Ciao arch_mutex_cpu_relax()
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 08:25:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140625062510.GB4260@osiris> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1403622415.15523.4.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net>

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 08:06:55AM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-06-23 at 08:58 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > While I like the general idea; does anyone have a better name for this?
> > So in particular, the difference is that on s390:
> > 
> >  cpu_relax()                - yields the vcpu
> >  arch_{,mutex_}cpu_relax()  - will actually spin-wait
> 
> iirc Heiko had suggested cpu_relax_simple() in the past. I don't think
> it's any better or worse than arch_cpu_relax(). For s390
> cpu_relax_noyield() would perhaps be suitable, but not very descriptive
> for the rest of the archs. I'm really lacking creativity for this name.

Maybe cpu_relax_spin() ? However that doesn't sound much better as well.


  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-25  6:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-20 18:21 [PATCH] arch,locking: Ciao arch_mutex_cpu_relax() Davidlohr Bueso
2014-06-23  6:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-23  7:13   ` Vineet Gupta
2014-06-23 11:34     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-23  6:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-24 15:06   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-06-25  6:25     ` Heiko Carstens [this message]
2014-06-25 11:57       ` Linus Torvalds
2014-06-29 22:09         ` [PATCH v2] " Davidlohr Bueso
2014-08-05 13:04           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-08-05 17:42             ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-08-08  1:18               ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-08-08 10:45                 ` Guenter Roeck
2014-08-15 19:34                 ` Guenter Roeck

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