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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Sarbojit Ganguly <ganguly.s@samsung.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
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	"raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com" 
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	"oleg@redhat.com" <oleg@redhat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	SHARAN ALLUR <sharan.allur@samsung.com>,
	"torvalds@linux-foundation.org" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] arm: Add for atomic half word exchange
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 14:43:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150519124333.GC3644@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1795987946.405311432034410830.JavaMail.weblogic@ep2mlwas07a>

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:20:13AM +0000, Sarbojit Ganguly wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 May 2015 09:39:33 Sarbojit Ganguly wrote:
> > Since 16 bit half word exchange was not there and MCS based
> > qspinlock by Waiman's xchg_tail() requires an atomic exchange on a
> > half word, here is a small modification to __xchg() code.

Can you actually see a performance improvement with the qspinlock code
on ARM ?

The real improvements on x86 were on NUMA systems; although there were
real improvements on light loads as well.


Note that ARM (or any load-store arch) could get rid of all the cmpxchg
loops in that code. Although I suppose we replaced the most common ones
with these unconditional atomics already -- like that xchg16 -- so
implementing those with ll/sc, as you did, should be near optimal.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-19 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-19 11:20 [RFC] arm: Add for atomic half word exchange Sarbojit Ganguly
2015-05-19 11:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-05-19 12:13 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-05-19 12:43 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-06-05  1:17 Re: " Sarbojit Ganguly
2015-06-05 12:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-06-02  6:21 Sarbojit Ganguly
2015-06-02 10:49 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-06-02  5:49 Sarbojit Ganguly
2015-06-02  6:11 ` Raghavendra K T
2015-05-20  5:09 Sarbojit Ganguly
2015-05-20  6:51 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-05-19  9:39 Sarbojit Ganguly
2015-05-19  9:51 ` Arnd Bergmann

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