Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:01:22 +0200
From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
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        Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>,
        Lior Amsalem <alior@marvell.com>, Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>,
        Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@arm.com>,
        Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>,
        Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] ARM: Add atomic_io_modify optimized routines
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Dear Ezequiel Garcia,

On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 06:49:08 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:

> > Is this any different from the generic one introduced in patch 1/4? I
> > would rather just use the generic definition.
> 
> Well, according to Will Deacon (and as documented in the commit log)
> we can optimize in ARM by using readl_relaxed instead of readl.
> 
> Now, I'm sure you now better than me if that results (or not) in any
> significant optimization.
> 
> > Similarly, a generic
> > atomic_io_modify_relaxed() but guarded with something like
> > __HAVE_ARCH_RELAXED_IO.
> > 
> 
> No, that's not possible. As far as I understand, there's no guarantee
> of _relaxed variants to be available architecture-wide.

I think what Catalin was suggesting is that atomic_io_modify() should
use readl() and writel() (i.e *not* the relaxed variants), and that a
separate atomic_io_modify_relaxed() could be added on architectures
that define __HAVE_ARCH_RELAXED_IO.

I think you misread Catalin's comment when you say there's no guarantee
of _relaxed variants to be available architecture-wide, since Catalin
precisely suggested to guard that with __HAVE_ARCH_RELAXED_IO, which
indicates that _relaxed variants are available.

Thanks,

Thomas
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