From: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com>
To: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, <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 16:47:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <573F77EF.3020409@hpe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160520150049.GB7086@linux-uzut.site>
On 05/20/2016 11:00 AM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Fri, 20 May 2016, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:39:26PM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
>>> In addition, this makes me wonder if queued_spin_is_locked() should
>>> then be:
>>>
>>> - return atomic_read(&lock->val);
>>> + return atomic_read(&lock->val) & _Q_LOCKED_MASK;
>>>
>>> And avoid considering pending waiters as locked.
>>
>> Probably
>
> 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);
>
> Thanks,
> Davidlohr
Looking for contended lock, you need to consider the lock waiters also.
So looking at the whole word is right.
Cheers,
Longman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-20 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-20 5:39 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 [this message]
2016-05-20 20:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
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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