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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:33:06 -0400 From: Waiman Long <waiman.long@...com> To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@...il.com>, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>, Scott J Norton <scott.norton@...com>, Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@...com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 05/19] qspinlock: Optimize for smaller NR_CPUS On 04/17/2014 11:51 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:03:57AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote: >> @@ -48,6 +53,9 @@ >> * We can further change the first spinner to spin on a bit in the lock word >> * instead of its node; whereby avoiding the need to carry a node from lock to >> * unlock, and preserving API. >> + * >> + * N.B. The current implementation only supports architectures that allow >> + * atomic operations on smaller 8-bit and 16-bit data types. >> */ > Only for the _Q_PENDING_BITS == 8 case, the other case should still be > fine. Yes, but _Q_PENDING_BITS is controlled by NR_CPUS which, for almost all the distributions, is less than 16K which means _Q_PENDING_BITS will always be set to 8, especially for non-x86 architectures. -Longman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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