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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
	manfred@colorfullife.com, mingo@kernel.org,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, ggherdovich@suse.com,
	mgorman@techsingularity.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sem_lock() vs qspinlocks
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 22:52:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160520205222.GI3193@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <573F77EF.3020409@hpe.com>

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 04:47:43PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:

> >Similarly, and I know you hate it, but afaict, then semantically
> >queued_spin_is_contended() ought to be:
> >
> >-       return atomic_read(&lock->val) & ~_Q_LOCKED_MASK;
> >+       return atomic_read(&lock->val);
> >

> Looking for contended lock, you need to consider the lock waiters also. So
> looking at the whole word is right.

No, you _only_ need to look at the lock waiters.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-20 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-20  5:39 sem_lock() vs qspinlocks Davidlohr Bueso
2016-05-20  7:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-20 15:00   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2016-05-20 15:05     ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-20 15:25       ` Davidlohr Bueso
2016-05-20 15:28       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-20 20:47     ` Waiman Long
2016-05-20 20:52       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2016-05-21  0:59         ` Davidlohr Bueso
2016-05-21  4:01           ` Waiman Long
2016-05-21  7:40             ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-20  7:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-20  8:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-20  8:18   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-20  9:07     ` Giovanni Gherdovich
2016-05-20  9:34       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-20  8:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-20  9:00   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-20 10:09     ` Ingo Molnar
2016-05-20 10:45       ` Mel Gorman
2016-05-20 11:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-20 14:05   ` Boqun Feng
2016-05-20 15:21     ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-20 16:04       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-20 17:00         ` Linus Torvalds
2016-05-20 21:06           ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-20 21:44             ` Linus Torvalds
2016-05-21  0:48               ` Davidlohr Bueso
2016-05-21  2:30                 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-05-21  7:37                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-21 13:49                   ` Manfred Spraul
2016-05-24 10:57                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-21 17:14                   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2016-05-23 12:25           ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-23 17:52             ` Linus Torvalds
2016-05-25  6:37               ` Boqun Feng
2016-05-22  8:43         ` Manfred Spraul
2016-05-22  9:38           ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-20 16:20   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2016-05-20 20:44   ` Waiman Long
2016-05-20 20:53     ` Peter Zijlstra

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