From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com>, Jason Low <jason.low2@hpe.com>,
Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
Terry Rudd <terry.rudd@hpe.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>,
Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>,
Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v4 8/8] locking/mutex: Enable optimistic spinning of woken waiter
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 11:32:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161017093242.GN3117@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161013152801.GD13138@arm.com>
On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 04:28:01PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 04:52:51PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > @@ -457,15 +472,20 @@ static bool mutex_optimistic_spin(struct
> > * release the lock or go to sleep.
> > */
> > owner = __mutex_owner(lock);
> > - if (owner && !mutex_spin_on_owner(lock, owner))
> > - break;
> > + if (owner) {
> > + if (waiter && owner == task) {
> > + smp_mb(); /* ACQUIRE */
>
> Hmm, is this barrier actually needed? This only happens on the handoff path,
> and we take the wait_lock immediately after this succeeds anyway. That
> control dependency, coupled with the acquire semantics of the spin_lock,
> should be sufficient, no?
Yes, I think you're right. But like said in that earlier email, I'd like
to keep this for now.
Once this code has settled we can reconsider this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-17 9:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-07 14:52 [PATCH -v4 0/8] locking/mutex: Rewrite basic mutex Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-07 14:52 ` [PATCH -v4 1/8] locking/drm: Kill mutex trickery Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-07 15:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-07 15:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-07 16:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-07 21:58 ` Waiman Long
2016-10-08 11:58 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-08 14:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-08 14:11 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-08 16:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-09 10:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-18 12:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-18 12:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-11 11:22 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-11-11 11:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-12 10:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-11-14 14:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-11-14 14:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-10-18 12:57 ` Chris Wilson
2016-10-07 14:52 ` [PATCH -v4 2/8] locking/mutex: Rework mutex::owner Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-12 17:59 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2016-10-12 19:52 ` Jason Low
2016-10-13 15:18 ` Will Deacon
2016-10-07 14:52 ` [PATCH -v4 3/8] locking/mutex: Kill arch specific code Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-07 14:52 ` [PATCH -v4 4/8] locking/mutex: Allow MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER when DEBUG_MUTEXES Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-07 14:52 ` [PATCH -v4 5/8] locking/mutex: Add lock handoff to avoid starvation Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-13 15:14 ` Will Deacon
2016-10-17 9:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-17 18:45 ` Waiman Long
2016-10-17 19:07 ` Waiman Long
2016-10-18 13:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-18 12:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-12-27 13:55 ` Chris Wilson
2017-01-09 11:52 ` [PATCH] locking/mutex: Clear mutex-handoff flag on interrupt Chris Wilson
2017-01-11 16:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-01-11 16:57 ` Chris Wilson
2017-01-12 20:58 ` Chris Wilson
2016-10-07 14:52 ` [PATCH -v4 6/8] locking/mutex: Restructure wait loop Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-13 15:17 ` Will Deacon
2016-10-17 10:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-17 13:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-17 13:45 ` Boqun Feng
2016-10-17 15:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-19 17:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-24 1:57 ` ciao set_task_state() (was Re: [PATCH -v4 6/8] locking/mutex: Restructure wait loop) Davidlohr Bueso
2016-10-24 13:26 ` Kent Overstreet
2016-10-24 14:27 ` Kent Overstreet
2016-10-25 16:55 ` Eric Wheeler
2016-10-25 17:45 ` Kent Overstreet
2016-10-17 23:16 ` [PATCH -v4 6/8] locking/mutex: Restructure wait loop Waiman Long
2016-10-18 13:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-07 14:52 ` [PATCH -v4 7/8] locking/mutex: Simplify some ww_mutex code in __mutex_lock_common() Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-07 14:52 ` [PATCH -v4 8/8] locking/mutex: Enable optimistic spinning of woken waiter Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-13 15:28 ` Will Deacon
2016-10-17 9:32 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2016-10-17 23:21 ` Waiman Long
2016-10-18 12:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-07 15:20 ` [PATCH -v4 0/8] locking/mutex: Rewrite basic mutex Linus Torvalds
2016-10-11 18:42 ` Jason Low
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