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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/15] perf_counter: unify and fix delayed counter wakeup
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:45:23 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18897.44531.88862.844627@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090330171023.153932974@chello.nl>

Peter Zijlstra writes:

> +void perf_counter_wakeup(struct perf_counter *counter)
> +{
> +	struct perf_mmap_data *data;
> +
> +	rcu_read_lock();
> +	data = rcu_dereference(counter->data);
> +	if (data) {
> +		(void)atomic_xchg(&data->wakeup, POLL_IN);

Really just a nit, but how is this atomic_xchg any different from
atomic_set(&data->wakeup, POLL_IN) aside from being slower?

Paul.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-31  5:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-30 17:07 [PATCH 00/15] pending perf_counter bits Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-30 17:07 ` [PATCH 01/15] perf_counter: unify and fix delayed counter wakeup Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-31  5:45   ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2009-03-31  6:37     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-01  9:04       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-01 10:12   ` [tip:perfcounters/core] " Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-30 17:07 ` [PATCH 02/15] perf_counter: fix update_userpage() Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-01 10:12   ` [tip:perfcounters/core] " Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-30 17:07 ` [PATCH 03/15] perf_counter: kerneltop: simplify data_head read Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-01 10:13   ` [tip:perfcounters/core] " Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-30 17:07 ` [PATCH 04/15] perf_counter: executable mmap() information Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-01 10:13   ` [tip:perfcounters/core] " Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-30 17:07 ` [PATCH 05/15] perf_counter: kerneltop: parse the mmap data stream Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-01 10:13   ` [tip:perfcounters/core] " Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-30 17:07 ` [PATCH 06/15] perf_counter: powerpc: only reserve PMU hardware when we need it Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-01 10:13   ` [tip:perfcounters/core] " Paul Mackerras
2009-03-30 17:07 ` [PATCH 07/15] perf_counter: make it possible for hw_perf_counter_init to return error codes Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-01 10:13   ` [tip:perfcounters/core] " Paul Mackerras
2009-03-30 17:07 ` [PATCH 08/15] perf_counter: x86: proper error propagation for the x86 hw_perf_counter_init() Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-01 10:13   ` [tip:perfcounters/core] " Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-30 17:07 ` [PATCH 09/15] perf_counter tools: optionally scale counter values in perfstat mode Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-01  9:39   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-01 10:50     ` Paul Mackerras
2009-04-01 10:14   ` [tip:perfcounters/core] " Paul Mackerras
2009-03-30 17:07 ` [PATCH 10/15] perf_counter: small cleanup of the output routines Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-01 10:14   ` [tip:perfcounters/core] " Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-30 17:07 ` [PATCH 11/15] perf_counter: re-arrange the perf_event_type Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-01 10:14   ` [tip:perfcounters/core] " Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-30 17:07 ` [PATCH 12/15] pref_counter: kerneltop: update event_types Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-01 10:14   ` [tip:perfcounters/core] perf_counter tools: " Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-30 17:07 ` [PATCH 13/15] perf_counter: provide generic callchain bits Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-31  6:12   ` Paul Mackerras
2009-03-31  6:39     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-31  7:24       ` Corey Ashford
2009-03-31  8:43         ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-31  9:09           ` Paul Mackerras
2009-03-31  9:12         ` Paul Mackerras
2009-03-31 14:00           ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-31 17:11             ` Corey Ashford
2009-04-01  3:48             ` Paul Mackerras
2009-04-01  7:59               ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-01  8:45                 ` Paul Mackerras
2009-04-01 10:00                   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-01 11:53                     ` Paul Mackerras
2009-04-01 23:25                 ` Corey Ashford
2009-04-02  6:43                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-02  7:41                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-02  9:10                       ` Paul Mackerras
2009-04-02  9:14                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-01 10:14   ` [tip:perfcounters/core] " Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-30 17:07 ` [PATCH 14/15] perf_counter: x86: callchain support Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-01 10:14   ` [tip:perfcounters/core] " Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-30 17:07 ` [PATCH 15/15] perf_counter: pmc arbitration Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-01 10:15   ` [tip:perfcounters/core] " Peter Zijlstra
2009-03-31  5:43 ` [PATCH 00/15] pending perf_counter bits Paul Mackerras

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