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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Rui Wang <wangrui@loongson.cn>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>,
	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>, Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>,
	linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Rui Wang <r@hev.cc>, Xuefeng Li <lixuefeng@loongson.cn>,
	Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@gmail.com>,
	Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>,
	Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>,
	kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3] locking/atomic: Implement atomic{,64,_long}_{fetch_,}{andnot_or}{,_relaxed,_acquire,_release}()
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 13:43:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a3ru0VSYLohoFOd=P=Fjb8BS=1qpMGSf4jdxF4oxmH-ag@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210729095551.GE21151@willie-the-truck>

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 11:56 AM Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 05:30:03PM +0800, Rui Wang wrote:
> > This patch introduce a new atomic primitive andnot_or:
>
> Please see my other comments on the other patches you posted:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210729093923.GD21151@willie-the-truck
>
> Overall, I'm not thrilled to bits by extending the atomics API with
> operations that cannot be implemented efficiently on any (?) architectures
> and are only used by the qspinlock slowpath on machines with more than 16K
> CPUs.

Wouldn't this also help improve set_mask_bits()? That one at least has
a handful of users in the kernel.

       Arnd

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-07-29 11:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-29  9:30 [RFC PATCH v3] locking/atomic: Implement atomic{,64,_long}_{fetch_,}{andnot_or}{,_relaxed,_acquire,_release}() Rui Wang
2021-07-29  9:55 ` Will Deacon
2021-07-29 10:58   ` hev
2021-07-29 11:15   ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-07-29 12:34     ` Will Deacon
2021-07-29 11:43   ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2021-07-29 12:35     ` Will Deacon
2021-07-30  2:50       ` hev

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