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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 08:50:32 -1000
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
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Subject: Re: [POC][RFC][PATCH v2] sched: Extended Scheduler Time Slice
On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 at 08:36, Mathieu Desnoyers
<mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com> wrote:
>
> > asm volatile("xchg %b0,%1"
>
> which has an implicit lock prefix (xchg with a memory operand is a
> special-case):
Yeah, this is why we do "percpu_xchg()" - which does not want locked
semantics - as a "cmpxchg" loop.
Steven, check out
arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h
for a rough implementation of a 'xchg()' without SMP coherency, just
cpu-local one (ie atomic wrt being preempted by the kernel, but not
atomic wrt other CPU's accessing the same variable concurrently)
Linus
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