linux-kernel - Re: [thiscpuops upgrade 10/10] Lockless (and preemptless) fastpaths for slub

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Message-ID: <AANLkTin02TYMurwmGZi2meSmVg6W4a37qmOLJLrFvMCm@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:47:12 +0200
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [thiscpuops upgrade 10/10] Lockless (and preemptless) fastpaths
 for slub

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> > The critical section begins with the retrieval of the tid and it ends with
>> > the replacement of the tid with the newly generated one. This means that
>> > all state data for the alloc and free operation needs to be retrieved in
>> > that critical section. The change must be saved with the final
>> > cmpxchg_double of the critical section.
>>
>> Right and we don't need a *memory barrier* here because we're
>> accessing a per-CPU variable which means operations appear in-order.

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com> wrote:
> The compiler is still free to rearrange the tid fetch. A possible
> optimization that the compiler may do is to move the tid fetch into the
> next if statement since that is the only block in which the tid variable
> is actually used.

Yes, which is why we need a *compiler barrier* but not a *memory barrier*.
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