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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	fbl@redhat.com, nhorman@redhat.com, davem@redhat.com,
	htejun@gmail.com, jarkao2@gmail.com, davidel@xmailserver.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 2/2] memory barrier: adding smp_mb__after_lock
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:50:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1246981815.9777.12.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090707154440.GA15605@redhat.com>

On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 17:44 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 07/07, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> >
> > Actually, thinking about it more, to appropriately support x86, as well
> > as powerpc, arm and mips, we would need something like:
> >
> > read_lock_smp_mb()
> >
> > Which would be a read_lock with an included memory barrier.
> 
> Then we need read_lock_irq_smp_mb, read_lock_irqsave__smp_mb, write_lock_xxx,
> otherwise it is not clear why only read_lock() has _smp_mb() version.
> 
> The same for spin_lock_xxx...

At which time the smp_mb__{before,after}_{un,}lock become attractive
again.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-07 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-03  8:12 [PATCHv5 0/2] net: fix race in the receive/select Jiri Olsa
2009-07-03  8:13 ` [PATCHv5 1/2] net: adding memory barrier to the poll and receive callbacks Jiri Olsa
2009-07-07 15:56   ` Eric Dumazet
2009-07-03  8:14 ` [PATCHv5 2/2] memory barrier: adding smp_mb__after_lock Jiri Olsa
2009-07-03  9:06   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-07-03  9:20     ` Eric Dumazet
2009-07-03  9:24       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-07-03  9:56         ` Jiri Olsa
2009-07-03 10:25           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-07-03 11:18             ` Jiri Olsa
2009-07-03 11:30               ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-07-03 11:43                 ` Jiri Olsa
2009-07-07 10:18               ` Jiri Olsa
2009-07-07 13:46                 ` Jiri Olsa
2009-07-07 14:01                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-07-07 14:34                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-07-07 15:04                       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-07-07 15:44                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-07-07 15:50                           ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2009-07-07 19:45                             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-07-07 22:44                               ` Eric Dumazet
2009-07-07 23:28                                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-07-07 23:51                                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-07-08  4:34                                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-07-08  7:18                                       ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-07-07 14:34                     ` Jiri Olsa
2009-07-07 14:42                     ` Eric Dumazet
2009-07-07 14:57                       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-07-07 15:23                         ` Eric Dumazet
2009-07-08 17:47                           ` Jiri Olsa
2009-07-08 18:07                             ` David Miller
2009-07-08 18:16                               ` Jiri Olsa
2009-07-03 14:04     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-07-03 15:29       ` Herbert Xu
2009-07-03 15:37         ` Eric Dumazet
2009-07-03 15:47           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-07-03 17:06             ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-07-03 17:31               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-07-03 15:40         ` Mathieu Desnoyers

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