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From: Sergey Fedorov <serge.fdrv@gmail.com>
To: "Emilio G. Cota" <cota@braap.org>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Richard Henderson" <rth@twiddle.net>,
	"MTTCG Devel" <mttcg@greensocs.com>,
	"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
	"QEMU Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] atomics: do not use __atomic primitives for RCU atomics
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 22:59:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5744B2BD.5000705@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160524195609.GA30809@flamenco>

On 24/05/16 22:56, Emilio G. Cota wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 09:08:01 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> On 23/05/2016 19:09, Emilio G. Cota wrote:
>>> PS. And really equating smp_wmb/rmb to release/acquire as we have under
>>> #ifdef __ATOMIC is hard to justify, other than to please tsan.
>> That only makes a difference on arm64, right?
>>
>> 	acquire		release		rmb		wmb
>> x86	--		--		--		--
>> power	lwsync		lwsync		lwsync		lwsync
>> armv7	dmb		dmb		dmb		dmb
>> arm64	dmb ishld	dmb ish		dmb ishld	dmb ishst
>> ia64	--		--		--		--
> Yes. I now see why we're defining rmb/wmb based on acquire/release:
> it's quite convenient given that the compiler provides them, and
> the (tiny) differences in practice are not worth the trouble of
> adding asm for them. So I take back my comment =)
>
> The gains of getting rid of the consume barrier from atomic_rcu_read
> are clear though; updated patch to follow.

However, maybe it's not such a pain to maintain an optimized version for
AArch64 in assembly :P

Best,
Sergey

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-24 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-21 20:42 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] atomics: fix small RCU perf. regression + update documentation Emilio G. Cota
2016-05-21 20:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] atomics: do not use __atomic primitives for RCU atomics Emilio G. Cota
2016-05-22  7:58   ` Alex Bennée
2016-05-24 18:42     ` Emilio G. Cota
2016-05-23 14:21   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-05-23 15:55     ` Emilio G. Cota
2016-05-23 16:53   ` Richard Henderson
2016-05-23 17:09     ` Emilio G. Cota
2016-05-24  7:08       ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-05-24 19:56         ` Emilio G. Cota
2016-05-24 19:59           ` Sergey Fedorov [this message]
2016-05-25  8:52             ` Alex Bennée
2016-05-25 11:02               ` Sergey Fedorov
2016-05-21 20:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] docs/atomics: update atomic_read/set comparison with Linux Emilio G. Cota

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