public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
To: Alexander Fyodorov <halcy@yandex.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Chandramouleeswaran, Aswin" <aswin@hp.com>,
	"Norton, Scott J" <scott.norton@hp.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 1/2] qspinlock: Introducing a 4-byte queue spinlock implementation
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 23:16:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52200E7C.5040402@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53161377795800@web14m.yandex.ru>

On 08/29/2013 01:03 PM, Alexander Fyodorov wrote:
> 29.08.2013, 19:25, "Waiman Long"<waiman.long@hp.com>:
>> What I have been thinking is to set a flag in an architecture specific
>> header file to tell if the architecture need a memory barrier. The
>> generic code will then either do a smp_mb() or barrier() depending on
>> the presence or absence of the flag. I would prefer to do more in the
>> generic code, if possible.
> If you use flag then you'll have to check it manually. It is better to add new smp_mb variant, I suggest calling it smp_mb_before_store(), and define it to barrier() on x86.

I am sorry that I was not clear in my previous mail. I mean a flag/macro 
for compile time checking rather than doing runtime checking.

Regards,
Longman

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-30  3:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <15321377012704@web8h.yandex.ru>
2013-08-21  3:01 ` [PATCH RFC v2 1/2] qspinlock: Introducing a 4-byte queue spinlock implementation Waiman Long
2013-08-21 15:51   ` Alexander Fyodorov
2013-08-22  1:04     ` Waiman Long
2013-08-22 13:28       ` Alexander Fyodorov
2013-08-26 20:14         ` Waiman Long
2013-08-27 12:09           ` Alexander Fyodorov
     [not found]             ` <20130827091436.3d5971a0@gandalf.local.home>
2013-08-27 13:53               ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-28  1:21                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-08-28  8:19                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-28 12:59                     ` Steven Rostedt
2013-08-28 13:05                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-28 13:15                         ` Steven Rostedt
2013-08-28 13:37                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-29 15:24             ` Waiman Long
2013-08-29 17:03               ` Alexander Fyodorov
2013-08-30  3:16                 ` Waiman Long [this message]
2013-08-30  8:15                   ` Alexander Fyodorov
2013-08-13 18:41 [PATCH RFC v2 0/2] qspinlock: Introducing a 4-byte queue spinlock Waiman Long
2013-08-13 18:41 ` [PATCH RFC v2 1/2] qspinlock: Introducing a 4-byte queue spinlock implementation Waiman Long

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=52200E7C.5040402@hp.com \
    --to=waiman.long@hp.com \
    --cc=aswin@hp.com \
    --cc=halcy@yandex.ru \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mingo@redhat.com \
    --cc=peterz@infradead.org \
    --cc=rostedt@goodmis.org \
    --cc=scott.norton@hp.com \
    --cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox