Re: [PATCH 00/10] kernel/locking: qspinlock improvements

2018-04-11 Thread Andrea Parri
On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 11:20:04AM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 03:22:49PM +0200, Andrea Parri wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 05:58:57PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > > > I've been kicking the tyres further on qspinlock and with this set of > > > patches > > > I'm happ

Re: [PATCH 00/10] kernel/locking: qspinlock improvements

2018-04-11 Thread Catalin Marinas
On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 03:22:49PM +0200, Andrea Parri wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 05:58:57PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > > I've been kicking the tyres further on qspinlock and with this set of > > patches > > I'm happy with the performance and fairness properties. In particular, the > > lock

Re: [PATCH 00/10] kernel/locking: qspinlock improvements

2018-04-06 Thread Andrea Parri
On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 05:58:57PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been kicking the tyres further on qspinlock and with this set of patches > I'm happy with the performance and fairness properties. In particular, the > locking algorithm now guarantees forward progress whereas the impl