From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org" <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>, "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, "oleg@redhat.com" <oleg@redhat.com>, "akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, "mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>, "dave@stgolabs.net" <dave@stgolabs.net>, "manfred@colorfullife.com" <manfred@colorfullife.com>, "tj@kernel.org" <tj@kernel.org>, "arnd@arndb.de" <arnd@arndb.de>, "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>, "will.deacon@arm.com" <will.deacon@arm.com>, "stern@rowland.harvard.edu" <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>, "parri.andrea@gmail.com" <parri.andrea@gmail.com>, "torvalds@linux-foundation.org" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Remove spin_unlock_wait() Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 07:41:07 -0700 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20170707144107.GA27202@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20170707083128.wqk6msuuhtyykhpu@gmail.com> On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 10:31:28AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: [ . . . ] > In fact I'd argue that any future high performance spin_unlock_wait() user is > probably better off open coding the unlock-wait poll loop (and possibly thinking > hard about eliminating it altogether). If such patterns pop up in the kernel we > can think about consolidating them into a single read-only primitive again. I would like any reintroduction to include a header comment saying exactly what the consolidated primitive actually does and does not do. ;-) > I.e. I think the proposed changes are doing no harm, and the unavailability of a > generic primitive does not hinder future optimizations either in any significant > fashion. I will have a v3 with updated comments from Manfred. Thoughts on when/where to push this? The reason I ask is if this does not go in during this merge window, I need to fix the header comment on spin_unlock_wait(). Thanx, Paul
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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org" <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>, "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, "oleg@redhat.com" <oleg@redhat.com>, "akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, "mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>, "dave@stgolabs.net" <dave@stgolabs.net>, "manfred@colorfullife.com" <manfred@colorfullife.com>, "tj@kernel.org" <tj@kernel.org>, "arnd@arndb.de" <arnd@arndb.de>, "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>, "will.deacon@arm.com" <will.deacon@arm.com>, "stern@rowland.harvard.edu" <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>, "parri.andrea@gmail.com" <parri.andrea@gmail.com>, "torval Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Remove spin_unlock_wait() Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 07:41:07 -0700 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20170707144107.GA27202@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20170707083128.wqk6msuuhtyykhpu@gmail.com> On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 10:31:28AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: [ . . . ] > In fact I'd argue that any future high performance spin_unlock_wait() user is > probably better off open coding the unlock-wait poll loop (and possibly thinking > hard about eliminating it altogether). If such patterns pop up in the kernel we > can think about consolidating them into a single read-only primitive again. I would like any reintroduction to include a header comment saying exactly what the consolidated primitive actually does and does not do. ;-) > I.e. I think the proposed changes are doing no harm, and the unavailability of a > generic primitive does not hinder future optimizations either in any significant > fashion. I will have a v3 with updated comments from Manfred. Thoughts on when/where to push this? The reason I ask is if this does not go in during this merge window, I need to fix the header comment on spin_unlock_wait(). Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-07 14:41 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 211+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2017-06-29 23:59 [PATCH RFC 0/26] Remove spin_unlock_wait() Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 01/26] netfilter: Replace spin_unlock_wait() with lock/unlock pair Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney [not found] ` <a6642feb-2f3a-980f-5ed6-2deb79563e6b@colorfullife.com> 2017-07-02 2:00 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-03 14:39 ` Alan Stern 2017-07-03 14:39 ` Alan Stern 2017-07-03 17:14 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-03 19:01 ` Manfred Spraul 2017-07-03 19:57 ` Alan Stern 2017-07-03 19:57 ` Alan Stern 2017-07-06 18:43 ` Manfred Spraul 2017-07-06 18:43 ` Manfred Spraul 2017-07-06 18:43 ` Manfred Spraul 2017-07-03 20:04 ` Alan Stern 2017-07-03 20:04 ` Alan Stern 2017-07-03 20:53 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 02/26] task_work: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 11:04 ` Oleg Nesterov 2017-06-30 12:50 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 15:20 ` Oleg Nesterov 2017-06-30 16:16 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 17:21 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 19:21 ` Oleg Nesterov 2017-06-30 19:50 ` Alan Stern 2017-06-30 19:50 ` Alan Stern 2017-06-30 20:04 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 20:02 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 20:19 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 03/26] sched: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 10:31 ` Arnd Bergmann 2017-06-30 12:35 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 04/26] completion: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 05/26] exit: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 06/26] ipc: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-01 19:23 ` Manfred Spraul 2017-07-02 3:16 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 07/26] drivers/ata: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 08/26] locking: Remove spin_unlock_wait() generic definitions Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 9:19 ` Will Deacon 2017-06-30 12:38 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 13:13 ` Will Deacon 2017-06-30 22:18 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-03 13:15 ` Will Deacon 2017-07-03 16:18 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-03 16:40 ` Linus Torvalds 2017-07-03 17:13 ` Will Deacon 2017-07-03 22:30 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-03 22:49 ` Linus Torvalds 2017-07-04 0:39 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-04 0:54 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-03 21:10 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 09/26] alpha: Remove spin_unlock_wait() arch-specific definitions Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 10/26] arc: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 11/26] arm: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 12/26] arm64: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 9:20 ` Will Deacon 2017-06-30 9:20 ` Will Deacon 2017-06-30 17:29 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 17:29 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 13/26] blackfin: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 14/26] hexagon: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 15/26] ia64: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 16/26] m32r: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 17/26] metag: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 18/26] mips: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 19/26] mn10300: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 20/26] parisc: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 21/26] powerpc: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-02 3:58 ` Boqun Feng 2017-07-05 23:57 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 22/26] s390: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 23/26] sh: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 24/26] sparc: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 25/26] tile: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:06 ` Linus Torvalds 2017-06-30 0:09 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:14 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:10 ` Linus Torvalds 2017-06-30 0:24 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` [PATCH RFC 26/26] xtensa: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-06-30 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-05 23:29 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] Remove spin_unlock_wait() Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-05 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core: Fix net_conntrack_lock() Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-05 23:31 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-06 18:45 ` Manfred Spraul 2017-07-06 18:45 ` Manfred Spraul 2017-07-06 18:45 ` Manfred Spraul 2017-07-06 20:26 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-05 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] task_work: Replace spin_unlock_wait() with lock/unlock pair Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-05 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] sched: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-05 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] completion: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-05 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] exit: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-05 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] ipc: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-05 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] drivers/ata: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-05 23:31 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-05 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] locking: Remove spin_unlock_wait() generic definitions Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-05 23:31 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] arch: Remove spin_unlock_wait() arch-specific definitions Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-06 14:12 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] Remove spin_unlock_wait() David Laight 2017-07-06 15:21 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-06 15:21 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-06 15:21 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-06 16:10 ` Peter Zijlstra 2017-07-06 16:10 ` Peter Zijlstra 2017-07-06 16:10 ` Peter Zijlstra 2017-07-06 16:24 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-06 16:24 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-06 16:24 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-06 16:41 ` Peter Zijlstra 2017-07-06 16:41 ` Peter Zijlstra 2017-07-06 16:41 ` Peter Zijlstra 2017-07-06 17:03 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-06 17:03 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-06 17:03 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-06 16:49 ` Alan Stern 2017-07-06 16:54 ` Peter Zijlstra 2017-07-06 16:54 ` Peter Zijlstra 2017-07-06 19:37 ` Alan Stern 2017-07-06 19:37 ` Alan Stern 2017-07-06 16:05 ` Peter Zijlstra 2017-07-06 16:05 ` Peter Zijlstra 2017-07-06 16:05 ` Peter Zijlstra 2017-07-06 16:20 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-06 16:20 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-06 16:20 ` Paul E. 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McKenney 2017-07-07 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 3/9] sched: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-07 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 4/9] completion: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-07 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 5/9] exit: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-07 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 6/9] ipc: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-07 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 7/9] drivers/ata: " Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-07 19:28 ` Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-07 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 8/9] locking: Remove spin_unlock_wait() generic definitions Paul E. McKenney 2017-07-07 19:28 ` [PATCH v3 9/9] arch: Remove spin_unlock_wait() arch-specific definitions Paul E. McKenney
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