From: Mathieu Desnoyers via lttng-dev <lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org>
To: Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>, lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org
Subject: Re: [lttng-dev] [PATCH 2/7] Use gcc __atomic builtis for <urcu/uatomic.h> implementation
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 16:26:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86858b96-5b88-7e1c-2be2-6157e864c8db@efficios.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dbe6e604-6ae9-1790-718f-bc69686442d1@free.fr>
On 2023-03-20 15:38, Duncan Sands via lttng-dev wrote:
> Hi Mathieu,
>
>> While OK for the general case, I would recommend that we immediately
>> implement something more efficient on x86 32/64 which takes into
>> account that __ATOMIC_ACQ_REL atomic operations are implemented with
>> LOCK prefixed atomic ops, which imply the barrier already, leaving the
>> before/after_uatomic_*() as no-ops.
>
> maybe first check whether the GCC optimizers merge them. I believe some
> optimizations of atomic primitives are allowed and implemented, but I
> couldn't say which ones.
>
> Best wishes, Duncan.
Tested on godbolt.org with:
int a;
void fct(void)
{
(void) __atomic_add_fetch(&a, 1, __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
__atomic_thread_fence(__ATOMIC_SEQ_CST);
}
x86-64 gcc 12.2 -O2 -std=c11:
fct:
lock add DWORD PTR a[rip], 1
lock or QWORD PTR [rsp], 0
ret
a:
.zero 4
x86-64 clang 16.0.0 -O2 -std=c11:
fct: # @fct
lock inc dword ptr [rip + a]
mfence
ret
a:
.long 0
So none of gcc/clang optimize this today, hence the need for an
x86-specific implementation.
Thanks,
Mathieu
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2023-03-17 21:37 [lttng-dev] [PATCH 0/7] Replace the custom code with gcc/clang __atomic builtins Ondřej Surý via lttng-dev
2023-03-17 21:37 ` [lttng-dev] [PATCH 1/7] Require __atomic builtins to build Ondřej Surý via lttng-dev
2023-03-17 21:37 ` [lttng-dev] [PATCH 2/7] Use gcc __atomic builtis for <urcu/uatomic.h> implementation Ondřej Surý via lttng-dev
2023-03-20 18:03 ` Mathieu Desnoyers via lttng-dev
2023-03-20 18:13 ` Mathieu Desnoyers via lttng-dev
2023-03-20 18:28 ` Ondřej Surý via lttng-dev
2023-03-20 18:38 ` Mathieu Desnoyers via lttng-dev
2023-03-20 18:41 ` Mathieu Desnoyers via lttng-dev
2023-03-20 19:38 ` Duncan Sands via lttng-dev
2023-03-21 20:26 ` Mathieu Desnoyers via lttng-dev [this message]
2023-03-22 8:24 ` Duncan Sands via lttng-dev
2023-03-17 21:37 ` [lttng-dev] [PATCH 3/7] Use __atomic_thread_fence() for cmm_barrier() Ondřej Surý via lttng-dev
2023-03-20 18:06 ` Mathieu Desnoyers via lttng-dev
2023-03-20 18:14 ` Mathieu Desnoyers via lttng-dev
2023-03-17 21:37 ` [lttng-dev] [PATCH 4/7] Replace the internal pointer manipulation with __atomic builtins Ondřej Surý via lttng-dev
2023-03-20 18:25 ` Mathieu Desnoyers via lttng-dev
2023-03-17 21:37 ` [lttng-dev] [PATCH 5/7] Use __atomic builtins to implement CMM_{LOAD, STORE}_SHARED Ondřej Surý via lttng-dev
2023-03-20 18:28 ` Mathieu Desnoyers via lttng-dev
2023-03-17 21:37 ` [lttng-dev] [PATCH 6/7] Fix: uatomic_or() need retyping to uintptr_t in rculfhash.c Ondřej Surý via lttng-dev
2023-03-20 18:31 ` Mathieu Desnoyers via lttng-dev
2023-03-21 10:15 ` Ondřej Surý via lttng-dev
2023-03-21 14:44 ` Mathieu Desnoyers via lttng-dev
2023-03-21 14:45 ` Mathieu Desnoyers via lttng-dev
2023-03-17 21:37 ` [lttng-dev] [PATCH 7/7] Experiment: Add explicit memory barrier in free_completion() Ondřej Surý via lttng-dev
2023-03-20 18:37 ` Mathieu Desnoyers via lttng-dev
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2023-03-21 14:59 ` [lttng-dev] TSAN and the tests Ondřej Surý via lttng-dev
2023-03-21 13:30 [lttng-dev] (no subject) Ondřej Surý via lttng-dev
2023-03-21 13:30 ` [lttng-dev] [PATCH 2/7] Use gcc __atomic builtis for <urcu/uatomic.h> implementation Ondřej Surý via lttng-dev
2023-03-21 20:03 ` Mathieu Desnoyers via lttng-dev
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