Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752400AbaBJCzT (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Feb 2014 21:55:19 -0500 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:44303 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752092AbaBJCzS (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Feb 2014 21:55:18 -0500 Message-ID: <1392000853.3996.13.camel@pasglop> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Convert powerpc simple spinlocks into ticket locks From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Tom Musta Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Torsten Duwe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras , Anton Blanchard , "Paul E. McKenney" , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Ingo Molnar Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:54:13 +1100 In-Reply-To: <52F3E255.5050906@gmail.com> References: <20140206103736.GA18054@lst.de> <20140206163837.GT2936@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20140206173727.GA13048@lst.de> <20140206180826.GI5002@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net> <52F3E255.5050906@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.8.4-0ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 13:28 -0600, Tom Musta wrote: > My read is consistent with Torsten's ... this looks like a bad idea. > > Look at the RTL for sthcx. on page 692 (Power ISA V2.06) and you will > see this: > > if RESERVE then > if RESERVE_LENGTH = 2 then > ... > else > undefined_case <- 1 > else > ... > > A legal implementation might never perform the store. This is an area where we definitely want to check with the implementors and if the implementations happen to do what we want (they likely do), get the architecture changed for future chips and use it anyway. There's a a *significant* benefit in avoiding an atomic operation in the unlock case . The reservation mechanism being based on a granule that is generally a cache line, I doubt implementations will ever check the actual access size, but we need to double check. Cheers, Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/