From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] MCS Lock: MCS lock code cleanup and optimizations
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 13:42:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <527AB7CA.4020502@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1383773816.11046.352.camel@schen9-DESK>
On 11/06/2013 01:36 PM, Tim Chen wrote:
> In this patch series, we separated out the MCS lock code which was
> previously embedded in the mutex.c. This allows for easier reuse of
> MCS lock in other places like rwsem and qrwlock. We also did some micro
> optimizations and barrier cleanup.
>
> This patches were previously part of the rwsem optimization patch series
> but now we spearate them out.
>
> Tim Chen
Perhaps I'm missing something here, but what is MCS lock and what is the
value?
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-06 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <cover.1383771175.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
2013-11-06 21:36 ` Tim Chen
2013-11-06 21:41 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2013-11-06 23:55 ` Tim Chen
2013-11-06 21:42 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-11-06 21:59 ` Michel Lespinasse
2013-11-06 21:37 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] MCS Lock: Restructure the MCS lock defines and locking code into its own file Tim Chen
2013-11-06 21:37 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] MCS Lock: optimizations and extra comments Tim Chen
2013-11-06 21:47 ` Tim Chen
2013-11-06 21:37 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] MCS Lock: Barrier corrections Tim Chen
2013-11-07 1:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-11-07 4:29 ` Waiman Long
2013-11-07 8:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-11-07 8:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-11-07 8:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-11-07 9:55 ` Michel Lespinasse
2013-11-07 12:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-11-07 12:50 ` Michel Lespinasse
2013-11-07 14:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-11-07 19:59 ` Michel Lespinasse
2013-11-07 21:15 ` Tim Chen
2013-11-07 22:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-07 22:43 ` Michel Lespinasse
2013-11-08 1:16 ` Tim Chen
2013-11-06 21:37 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] MCS Lock: Make mcs_spinlock.h includable in other files Tim Chen
2013-11-06 21:41 ` Tim Chen
2013-11-06 21:37 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] MCS Lock: Allow architecture specific memory barrier in lock/unlock Tim Chen
2013-11-06 21:42 ` Tim Chen
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