From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45D08C433B4 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2021 16:55:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 161E460232 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2021 16:55:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1354383AbhDGQzR (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2021 12:55:17 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:52096 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1354367AbhDGQzN (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2021 12:55:13 -0400 Received: from desiato.infradead.org (desiato.infradead.org [IPv6:2001:8b0:10b:1:d65d:64ff:fe57:4e05]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 53D76C061756; Wed, 7 Apr 2021 09:55:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=desiato.20200630; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date: Sender:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=PJEGDTfx4FpHUfzm/IRlkyDCU12YvWeK1NxNzYl/AlY=; b=IuK+PUXsE0Q27Z+WJZY5fVgKZd jBBDFbH+TO4Kuw/DGmuRbqBZAkScBp4b4IEEuaduuYruDLfTOg4xSHn+nPCdPXTiKWBfVw8GtMbpu eibVSjdAooE/oCCFJ9i7VNHhqde2OWycjWHa1A/Ek6dBGd4E22/GbH6z0XDVTCvebNvzLmqbsb04z oh/m3/o6ffBGwiYBbqDMXv7mJScMbc3t839fHnb1DCwFu8u7UiJ7DGG497/+izZDMNIQgUQF/SC9c ayx70l8lQidfnNLmdGyJZVkt9ZzXsum0ZBoqo1EChaX7MgWdaOhI5KBct919YT6+iCK/vgUwUnErn pwDsDA1g==; Received: from j217100.upc-j.chello.nl ([24.132.217.100] helo=noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net) by desiato.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.94 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1lUBS5-005W26-Ah; Wed, 07 Apr 2021 16:54:49 +0000 Received: from hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net (hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net [192.168.1.225]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A8A5C3001FB; Wed, 7 Apr 2021 18:54:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: by hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 867582BC07BA6; Wed, 7 Apr 2021 18:54:46 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 18:54:46 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Christoph =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=FCllner?= Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Guo Ren , linux-riscv , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-csky@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch , Guo Ren , Will Deacon , Ingo Molnar , Waiman Long , Arnd Bergmann , Anup Patel Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] locking/qspinlock: Add ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS_XCHG32 Message-ID: References: <20210407094224.GA3393992@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.