On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 1:49 PM Linus Torvalds
<torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> The case we want to go fast is the spin-lock and unlock case, not the
> "set pending" case.
>
> And the way you implemented this, it's exactly the wrong way around.
Oh, one more comment: couldn't we make that mmiowb flag be right next
to the preemption count?
Because that's the common case anyway, where a spinlock increments the
preemption count too. If we put the mmiowb state in the same
cacheline, we don't cause extra cache effects, which is what really
matters, I guess.
I realize this is somewhat inconvenient, because some architectures
put preempt count in the thread structure, and others do it as a
percpu variable. But maybe the architecture could just declare where
the mmiowb state is?
Linus
