linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] ARCv2: spinlock/rwlock: Reset retry delay when starting a new spin-wait cycle

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Date:	Mon, 3 Aug 2015 14:40:13 +0000
From:	Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CC:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"arc-linux-dev@...opsys.com" <arc-linux-dev@...opsys.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] ARCv2: spinlock/rwlock: Reset retry delay when
 starting a new spin-wait cycle

On Monday 03 August 2015 05:14 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 03:33:08PM +0530, Vineet Gupta wrote:
>> > A spin lock could be available momentarily, but the SCOND to actually
>> > acquire it might still fail due to concurrent update from other core(s).
>> > To elide hardware lock, the sequence is retried after a "delay" which is
>> > increased expoenntially to get a nice backoff behaviour.
>> > 
>> > However, this could cause the delay counter to get to a high value. Thus
>> > when the next spin cycle restarts, reset the counter back to starting
>> > value of 1.
> Cute.. fwiw, did you look at what Sparc64 does?
>

Can't really comprehend what's special there - are you referring to the special
branching or to the out of line slow path code for 32 bit version.
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