linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] locking/pvqspinlock: Unconditional PV kick with _Q_SLOW

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Message-ID: <1437961615.25997.36.camel@stgolabs.net>
Date:	Sun, 26 Jul 2015 18:46:55 -0700
From:	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
To:	Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@...com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Scott J Norton <scott.norton@...com>,
	Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] locking/pvqspinlock: Unconditional PV kick with
 _Q_SLOW_VAL

On Sat, 2015-07-25 at 15:31 -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-07-22 at 16:12 -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> > The smp_store_release() is not a full barrier. In order to avoid missed
> > wakeup, we may need to add memory barrier around locked and cpu state
> > variables adding to complexity. As the chance of spurious wakeup is very
> > low, it is easier and safer to just do an unconditional kick at unlock
> > time.
> 
> Although I guess if SPIN_THRESHOLD is ever enlarged, the chances of
> spurious wakeups would be greater.
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@...com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>

Thinking about this some more, as good practice, could you please add a
comment in the code explicitly mentioning the spurious wakeup side
effect? Perhaps even having something more generic for the entire kernel
might be added/created to Documentation/spurious-wakeups.txt?

Thanks,
Davidlohr

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