Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:04:34 -0700 | Subject | Re: Avoiding the dentry d_lock on final dput(), part deux: transactional memory | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com> wrote: > > I think this patch is worth a trial if relevant hardware is more widely > available. The TSX code certainly need to be moved to an architecture > specific area and should be runtime enabled using a static key. We also need > more TSX support infrastructure in place first.
I think we can pick that up from Andi's patches, he should have that. Although that did have very x86-specific naming (ie "xbegin"). And I don't think he used "asm goto" to quite the same advantage as this - and I think we do want to make sure that the overhead is minimal.
Linus
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