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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Paul Turner <commonly@gmail.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Chris Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	Dave Watson <davejwatson@fb.com>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] restartable sequences v2: fast user-space percpu critical sections
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 13:02:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160408110232.GP3448@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrXVReuuGGKW6EOV7tFFaK9RbwWxYvKdpUdvU=MpDaOtsQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 03:05:26PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

> It doesn't, which is what I like about my variant.  If the thread
> accesses the protected data structure, though, it should bump the
> sequence count, which will cause the first thread to about when it
> gets scheduled in.

Nope it won't, because that first thread is right at the commit
instruction, nothing will stop it from executing that store and clobbing
what we just wrote.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-08 11:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-27 23:56 [RFC PATCH 0/3] restartable sequences v2: fast user-space percpu critical sections Paul Turner
2015-10-27 23:56 ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/3] restartable sequences: user-space per-cpu " Paul Turner
2015-11-19 16:38   ` Johannes Berg
2015-12-11 12:56   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2015-10-27 23:57 ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/3] restartable sequences: x86 ABI Paul Turner
2015-10-28  5:03   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-10-28  5:19     ` Paul Turner
2015-12-11 13:30   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2015-10-27 23:57 ` [RFC PATCH v2 3/3] restartable sequences: basic self-tests Paul Turner
2016-04-05 20:33   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-04-06  7:43     ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-06 13:39       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-04-06 19:25         ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-10-28 14:44 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] restartable sequences v2: fast user-space percpu critical sections Dave Watson
2015-12-11 12:05 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2015-12-11 13:39   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-04-06 15:56 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-04-07 12:02   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-07 14:35     ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-04-07 15:24       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-07 15:39         ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-07 15:44         ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-04-07 15:53           ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-07 16:43             ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-04-07 20:11               ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-07 22:05                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-04-08  1:11                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-04-08  1:21                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-04-08  2:05                       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-04-08 17:46                         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-04-08 21:16                           ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-04-08 21:25                           ` Linus Torvalds
2016-04-10 14:07                             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-04-08 11:02                   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2016-04-08 15:57                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-04-08  6:41               ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-08 15:58                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-04-11 21:55               ` Mathieu Desnoyers

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