From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>,
linux-riscv <linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-csky@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
Guo Ren <guoren@linux.alibaba.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] locking/qspinlock: Add ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS_XCHG32
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 10:42:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210407094224.GA3393992@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YGwKpmPkn5xIxIyx@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 09:15:50AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Anyway, given you have such a crap architecture (and here I thought
> RISC-V was supposed to be a modern design *sigh*), you had better go
> look at the sparc64 atomic implementation which has a software backoff
> for failed CAS in order to make fwd progress.
It wasn't supposed to be modern. It was supposed to use boring old
ideas. Where it actually did that it is a great ISA, in parts where
academics actually tried to come up with cool or state of the art
ideas (interrupt handling, tlb shootdowns, the totally fucked up
memory model) it turned into a trainwreck.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-07 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-27 18:06 [PATCH v4 0/4] riscv: Add qspinlock/qrwlock guoren
2021-03-27 18:06 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] riscv: cmpxchg.h: Cleanup unused code guoren
2021-03-27 18:06 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] riscv: cmpxchg.h: Merge macros guoren
2021-03-27 21:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-03-28 1:50 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-27 18:06 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] locking/qspinlock: Add ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS_XCHG32 guoren
2021-03-27 18:43 ` Waiman Long
2021-03-28 1:48 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-29 7:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-29 9:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-03-29 11:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-29 11:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-29 12:52 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-29 13:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-03-30 2:26 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-30 5:51 ` Anup Patel
2021-03-30 6:26 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-30 7:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-03-31 4:18 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-31 5:33 ` Paul Campbell
2021-04-05 16:12 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-31 6:44 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-31 7:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-03-29 11:19 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-29 11:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-29 12:01 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-29 12:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-30 3:13 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-30 4:54 ` Anup Patel
2021-03-30 6:27 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-30 8:31 ` David Laight
2021-03-30 14:09 ` Waiman Long
2021-03-31 14:47 ` Guo Ren
2021-04-05 16:45 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-30 16:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-30 22:35 ` Stafford Horne
2021-03-31 7:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-03-31 12:31 ` Stafford Horne
2021-03-31 15:10 ` Guo Ren
2021-04-06 8:51 ` Stafford Horne
2021-04-06 3:50 ` Guo Ren
2021-04-06 8:56 ` Stafford Horne
2021-04-07 8:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-04-07 11:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 11:57 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-04-07 12:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-05 16:40 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-31 15:22 ` Guo Ren
2021-04-06 7:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 9:42 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-04-07 14:29 ` Christoph Müllner
2021-04-07 14:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-07 15:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 16:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 15:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 16:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 16:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 19:50 ` Christoph Müllner
2021-04-06 17:24 ` Boqun Feng
2021-04-07 9:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-29 12:13 ` Anup Patel
2021-03-29 12:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-27 18:06 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] riscv: Convert custom spinlock/rwlock to generic qspinlock/qrwlock guoren
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