From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
LKMM Maintainers -- Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>,
Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>,
Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Daniel Lustig <dlustig@nvidia.com>,
Jade Alglave <j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk>,
Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: atomic_t.txt: Explain ordering provided by smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic()
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 15:26:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190423132620.GU4038@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190423132116.GJ3923@linux.ibm.com>
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 06:21:16AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 02:17:15PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 01:54:40AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > 3. Make non-value-returning atomics provide full ordering.
> > > This would of course need some benchmarking, but would be a
> > > simple change to make and would eliminate a large class of
> > > potential bugs. My guess is that the loss in performance
> > > would be non-negligible, but who knows?
> >
> > Well, only for the architectures that have
> > smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic() as barrier(), which are: ia64, mips,
> > s390, sparc, x86 and xtense.
>
> The weakly ordered architectures would need to add the equivalent of
> smp_mb() before and after, right? This might result in a more noticeable
> loss of performance.
The weak archs already have: smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic() :=
smp_mb().
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-23 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-19 17:21 [PATCH] Documentation: atomic_t.txt: Explain ordering provided by smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic() Alan Stern
2019-04-19 17:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-04-19 18:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-19 18:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-04-20 0:26 ` Nicholas Piggin
2019-04-20 8:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-04-23 12:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-23 13:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-04-23 13:26 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2019-04-23 20:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-04-23 20:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-24 8:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-04-24 8:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-23 12:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-23 13:30 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-04-23 13:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-04-23 20:19 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-04-27 8:17 ` Andrea Parri
2019-04-27 8:36 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-04-29 9:24 ` Johan Hovold
2019-04-29 14:49 ` Paul E. McKenney
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