Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759013AbZFNNEy (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:04:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753819AbZFNNEq (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:04:46 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:38464 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751165AbZFNNEp (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:04:45 -0400 Message-ID: <4A34F564.2010500@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:04:36 +0300 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Mackerras CC: Linus Torvalds , benh@kernel.crashing.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] lib: Provide generic atomic64_t implementation References: <18995.20685.227683.561827@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <4A34E4A5.3040306@redhat.com> <18996.60235.178618.531664@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <18996.60235.178618.531664@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1182 Lines: 34 Paul Mackerras wrote: > Avi Kivity writes: > > >> An alternative implementation using 64-bit cmpxchg will recover most of >> the costs of hashed spinlocks. I assume most serious 32-bit >> architectures have them? >> > > Have a 64-bit cmpxchg, you mean? x86 is the only one I know of, and > it already has an atomic64_t implementation using cmpxchg8b (or > whatever it's called). > Yes (and it is cmpxchg8b). I'm surprised powerpc doesn't have DCAS support. > My thinking is that the 32-bit non-x86 architectures will be mostly > UP, so the overhead is just an interrupt enable/restore. Those that > are SMP I would expect to be small SMP -- mostly just 2 cpus and maybe > a few 4-way systems. > The new Nehalems provide 8 logical threads in a single socket. All those threads share a cache, and they have cmpxchg8b anyway, so this won't matter. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- 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/