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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/4] locking: Introduce smp_cond_acquire()
On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 02:29:05PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> Note that while smp_cond_acquire() has an explicit
> smp_read_barrier_depends() for Alpha, neither sites it gets used in
> were actually buggy on Alpha for their lack of it. The first uses
> smp_rmb(), which on Alpha is a full barrier too and therefore serves
> its purpose. The second had an explicit full barrier.

> +/**
> + * smp_cond_acquire() - Spin wait for cond with ACQUIRE ordering
> + * @cond: boolean expression to wait for
> + *
> + * Equivalent to using smp_load_acquire() on the condition variable but employs
> + * the control dependency of the wait to reduce the barrier on many platforms.
> + *
> + * The control dependency provides a LOAD->STORE order, the additional RMB
> + * provides LOAD->LOAD order, together they provide LOAD->{LOAD,STORE} order,
> + * aka. ACQUIRE.
> + */
> +#define smp_cond_acquire(cond) do { \
> + while (!(cond)) \
> + cpu_relax(); \
> + smp_read_barrier_depends(); /* ctrl */ \
> + smp_rmb(); /* ctrl + rmb := acquire */ \
> +} while (0)

So per the above argument we could leave out the
smp_read_barrier_depends() for Alpha, although that would break
consistency with all the other control dependency primitives we have. It
would avoid issuing a double barrier.

Thoughts?


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