From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: "Christoph Müllner" <christophm30@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>,
linux-riscv <linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-csky@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
Guo Ren <guoren@linux.alibaba.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] locking/qspinlock: Add ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS_XCHG32
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 18:54:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YG3j1j/MNCszy12w@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YG3VRIUjjaK+pfES@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 05:52:36PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 04:29:12PM +0200, Christoph Müllner wrote:
> > The comparison with sparc64 is not applicable, as sparc64 does not
> > have LL/SC instructions.
>
> Sparc64 has CAS, without hardware fwd progress. It has to do software
> backoff for failed CAS in order to do software fwd progress.
Again, the longer answer is that this applies identically to LL/SC and
I'm sure we actually have (or had) an architecture in tree that did just
that. I just cannot remember which architecture that was.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-07 16:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-27 18:06 [PATCH v4 0/4] riscv: Add qspinlock/qrwlock guoren
2021-03-27 18:06 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] riscv: cmpxchg.h: Cleanup unused code guoren
2021-03-27 18:06 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] riscv: cmpxchg.h: Merge macros guoren
2021-03-27 21:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-03-28 1:50 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-27 18:06 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] locking/qspinlock: Add ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS_XCHG32 guoren
2021-03-27 18:43 ` Waiman Long
2021-03-28 1:48 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-29 7:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-29 9:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-03-29 11:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-29 11:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-29 12:52 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-29 13:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-03-30 2:26 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-30 5:51 ` Anup Patel
2021-03-30 6:26 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-30 7:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-03-31 4:18 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-31 5:33 ` Paul Campbell
2021-04-05 16:12 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-31 6:44 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-31 7:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-03-29 11:19 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-29 11:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-29 12:01 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-29 12:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-30 3:13 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-30 4:54 ` Anup Patel
2021-03-30 6:27 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-30 8:31 ` David Laight
2021-03-30 14:09 ` Waiman Long
2021-03-31 14:47 ` Guo Ren
2021-04-05 16:45 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-30 16:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-30 22:35 ` Stafford Horne
2021-03-31 7:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-03-31 12:31 ` Stafford Horne
2021-03-31 15:10 ` Guo Ren
2021-04-06 8:51 ` Stafford Horne
2021-04-06 3:50 ` Guo Ren
2021-04-06 8:56 ` Stafford Horne
2021-04-07 8:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-04-07 11:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 11:57 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-04-07 12:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-05 16:40 ` Guo Ren
2021-03-31 15:22 ` Guo Ren
2021-04-06 7:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 9:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-07 14:29 ` Christoph Müllner
2021-04-07 14:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-07 15:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 16:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 15:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 16:54 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2021-04-07 16:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 19:50 ` Christoph Müllner
2021-04-06 17:24 ` Boqun Feng
2021-04-07 9:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-29 12:13 ` Anup Patel
2021-03-29 12:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-03-27 18:06 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] riscv: Convert custom spinlock/rwlock to generic qspinlock/qrwlock guoren
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