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SubjectRe: Serious problem with ticket spinlocks on ia64
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On Friday 27 of August 2010 22:29:41 Luck, Tony wrote:
> > If this is a memory ordering problem (and that seems quite plausible)
> > then a liberal sprinkling of "ia64_mf()" calls throughout the spinlock
> > routines would probably make it go away.
>
> I think I take this back ... if it were a memory ordering problem, then
> it could show up any time - not just at wrap-around.

One more idea. The wrap-around case is the only one when the high word is
modified. This is in fact the only case when the fetchadd.acq competes with
the st2.rel about the actual contents of that location. I don't know if it
matters...

Petr Tesarik


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