From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>,
ltt-dev@lists.casi.polymtl.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>,
uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org
Subject: Re: [ltt-dev] [RFC git tree] Userspace RCU (urcu) for Linux (repost)
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:15:08 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0902121247040.3099@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090212203924.GK6759@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>
> In other words, you are arguing for using ACCESS_ONCE() in the loops,
> but keeping the old ACCESS_ONCE() definition, and declaring BF hardware
> broken?
Well, I _also_ argue that if you have a busy loop, you'd better have a
cpu_relax() in there somewhere anyway. If you don't, you have a bug.
So I think the BF approach is "borderline broken", but I think it should
work, if BF just has whatever appropriate cache flush in its cpu_relax.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-12 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 116+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-06 3:05 [RFC git tree] Userspace RCU (urcu) for Linux Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-06 4:58 ` [RFC git tree] Userspace RCU (urcu) for Linux (repost) Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-06 13:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-06 16:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-07 15:10 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-07 22:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-08 0:19 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-07 23:38 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-08 0:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-08 21:46 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-08 22:36 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-09 0:24 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-09 0:54 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-09 1:08 ` [ltt-dev] " Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-09 3:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-09 3:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-09 0:40 ` [ltt-dev] " Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-08 22:44 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-09 4:11 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-09 4:53 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-09 5:17 ` [ltt-dev] " Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-09 7:03 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-09 15:33 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-10 19:17 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-10 21:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-10 21:28 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-10 22:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-10 22:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-10 23:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-11 0:57 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-11 5:28 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-11 6:35 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-11 15:32 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-11 18:52 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-11 20:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-11 21:42 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-11 22:08 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
[not found] ` <20090212003549.GU6694@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-02-12 2:33 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-12 2:37 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-12 4:10 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-12 5:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-12 5:47 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-12 16:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-12 18:40 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-12 20:28 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-12 21:27 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-12 23:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-13 13:12 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-12 4:08 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-12 5:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-12 7:05 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-12 16:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-12 19:29 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-12 20:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-12 20:09 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-12 20:35 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-12 21:15 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-12 20:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-02-12 20:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-12 21:15 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2009-02-12 21:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-13 13:50 ` Nick Piggin
2009-02-13 14:56 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-13 15:10 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-13 15:55 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-13 16:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-02-13 17:33 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-13 17:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-02-13 18:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-02-13 18:54 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-13 19:36 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-14 5:07 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-02-14 5:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-14 5:46 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-02-14 15:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-14 17:37 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-02-22 14:23 ` Pavel Machek
2009-02-22 18:28 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-02-14 6:42 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-14 3:15 ` [Uclinux-dist-devel] " Mike Frysinger
2009-02-13 18:40 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-13 16:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-02-14 3:11 ` [Uclinux-dist-devel] " Mike Frysinger
2009-02-14 4:58 ` Robin Getz
2009-02-12 19:38 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-12 20:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-12 21:53 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-12 23:04 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-13 12:49 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-11 5:08 ` Lai Jiangshan
2009-02-11 8:58 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-09 13:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-09 17:28 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-09 17:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-09 18:13 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-09 18:19 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-09 18:37 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-09 18:49 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-09 19:05 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-09 19:15 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-09 19:35 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-09 19:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-09 13:16 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-09 17:19 ` Bert Wesarg
2009-02-09 17:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-09 17:35 ` Bert Wesarg
2009-02-09 17:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-09 17:42 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-09 18:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-09 17:45 ` Bert Wesarg
2009-02-09 17:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-07 22:56 ` Kyle Moffett
2009-02-07 23:50 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-08 0:13 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-06 8:55 ` [RFC git tree] Userspace RCU (urcu) for Linux Bert Wesarg
2009-02-06 11:36 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
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