linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/9] rcu: Upgrade rcu_swap_protected() to rcu

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Date:   Thu, 3 Oct 2019 20:05:28 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Cc:     rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        paulmck@...nel.org, rcu <rcu@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        dipankar <dipankar@...ibm.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        fweisbec <fweisbec@...il.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        "Joel Fernandes, Google" <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@....com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
        Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>,
        Shane M Seymour <shane.seymour@....com>,
        "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/9] rcu: Upgrade rcu_swap_protected() to
 rcu_replace()

On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 12:31:38PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> We might want to consider simply using xchg() here.

As stated elsewhere, xchg() is an atomic op with full ordering, IOW it
is stupid expensive for what needs to be done.