On Thu Nov 10, 2022 at 10:42 AM AEST, Jordan Niethe wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-07-28 at 16:31 +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> [resend as utf-8, not utf-7]
> > Having all CPUs poll the lock word for the owner CPU that should be
> > yielded to defeats most of the purpose of using MCS queueing for
> >
On Thu, 2022-07-28 at 16:31 +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
[resend as utf-8, not utf-7]
> Having all CPUs poll the lock word for the owner CPU that should be
> yielded to defeats most of the purpose of using MCS queueing for
> scalability. Yet it may be desirable for queued waiters to to yield
> to
On 28/07/2022 08:31:14, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Having all CPUs poll the lock word for the owner CPU that should be
> yielded to defeats most of the purpose of using MCS queueing for
> scalability. Yet it may be desirable for queued waiters to to yield
> to a preempted owner.
>
> s390 addreses
On Thu, 2022-07-28 at 16:31 +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Having all CPUs poll the lock word for the owner CPU that should be
> yielded to defeats most of the purpose of using MCS queueing for
> scalability. Yet it may be desirable for queued waiters to to yield
> to a preempted owner.
>
> s390
Having all CPUs poll the lock word for the owner CPU that should be
yielded to defeats most of the purpose of using MCS queueing for
scalability. Yet it may be desirable for queued waiters to to yield
to a preempted owner.
s390 addreses this problem by having queued waiters sample the lock
word
