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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, waiman.long@hpe.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] locking/qspinlock: Use this_cpu_ptr instead of this_cpu_dec
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 13:37:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160603113703.GK3190@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1464947330-3568-1-git-send-email-xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 05:48:50PM +0800, Pan Xinhui wrote:
> queued_spin_lock_slowpath should not worry about interrupt change
> node->count by accident because ->count is inc and dec when we
> enter/leave queued_spin_lock_slowpath.
> 
> So this_cpu_dec() does some no point things here, lets use this_cpu_ptr
> for a small optimization.

Uhm, have you actually looked at what that does on x86?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-03 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-03  9:48 [PATCH] locking/qspinlock: Use this_cpu_ptr instead of this_cpu_dec Pan Xinhui
2016-06-03 11:37 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2016-06-06  3:21   ` xinhui
2016-06-03 21:20 ` Waiman Long
2016-06-03 21:35   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-06  4:48     ` xinhui

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