linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] powerpc: queued spinlocks and rwlocks

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Date:   Thu, 9 Jul 2020 10:31:13 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Cc:     Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Anton Blanchard <anton@...abs.org>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, kvm-ppc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] powerpc: queued spinlocks and rwlocks

On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 07:54:34PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 7/8/20 4:41 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 03:57:06PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> > > Yes, powerpc could certainly get more performance out of the slow
> > > paths, and then there are a few parameters to tune.
> > Can you clarify? The slow path is already in use on ARM64 which is weak,
> > so I doubt there's superfluous serialization present. And Will spend a
> > fair amount of time on making that thing guarantee forward progressm, so
> > there just isn't too much room to play.
> > 
> > > We don't have a good alternate patching for function calls yet, but
> > > that would be something to do for native vs pv.
> > Going by your jump_label implementation, support for static_call should
> > be fairly straight forward too, no?
> > 
> >    https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200624153024.794671356@infradead.org
> > 
> Speaking of static_call, I am also looking forward to it. Do you have an
> idea when that will be merged?

0day had one crash on the last round, I think Steve send a fix for that
last night and I'll go look at it.

That said, the last posting got 0 feedback, so either everybody is
really happy with it, or not interested. So let us know in the thread,
with some review feedback.

Once I get through enough of the inbox to actually find the fix and test
it, I'll also update the thread, and maybe threaten to merge it if
everybody stays silent :-)