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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Kyung Min Park <kyung.min.park@intel.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	tony.luck@intel.com, ashok.raj@intel.com,
	ravi.v.shankar@intel.com, fenghua.yu@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/asm/delay: Introduce TPAUSE delay
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 13:10:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200226211040.GS160988@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1582744258-42744-3-git-send-email-kyung.min.park@intel.com>

On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:10:58AM -0800, Kyung Min Park wrote:
> TPAUSE instructs the processor to enter an implementation-dependent
> optimized state. The instruction execution wakes up when the time-stamp
> counter reaches or exceeds the implicit EDX:EAX 64-bit input value.
> The instruction execution also wakes up due to the expiration of
> the operating system time-limit or by an external interrupt

This is actually a behavior change. Today's udelay() will continue
after processing the interrupt. Your patches don't

I don't think it's a problem though. The interrupt will cause
a long enough delay that exceed any reasonable udelay() requirements.

There would be a difference if someone did really long udelay()s, much
longer than typical interrupts, in this case you might end up
with a truncated udelay, but such long udelays are not something that we
would encourage.

I don't think you need to change anything in the code, but should
probably document this behavior.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-26 21:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-26 19:10 [PATCH 0/2] x86/delay: Introduce TPAUSE instruction Kyung Min Park
2020-02-26 19:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/asm: Define a few helpers in delay_waitx() Kyung Min Park
2020-03-18 20:19   ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-02-26 19:10 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/asm/delay: Introduce TPAUSE delay Kyung Min Park
2020-02-26 21:10   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2020-02-26 21:20     ` Luck, Tony
2020-02-26 21:59       ` Andi Kleen
2020-02-26 21:31     ` Fenghua Yu

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