linux-kernel - Re: [POC][RFC][PATCH v2] sched: Extended Scheduler Time Slice

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Date:   Thu, 26 Oct 2023 14:59:13 -0400
From:   Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [POC][RFC][PATCH v2] sched: Extended Scheduler Time Slice

On 2023-10-26 14:50, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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)

Actually Steven does not need a xchg to test-and-set a single bit which
is only accessed concurrently between kernel and userspace from the same
thread. Either "bts" or "andb" should work fine.

Thanks,

Mathieu

> 
>               Linus

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Mathieu Desnoyers
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