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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Yunsheng Lin' <linyunsheng@huawei.com>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 3/4] tools headers UAPI: add cpu_relax() implementation for x86 and arm64
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 20:53:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5db490c6f264431e91bcdbb62fcf3be5@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1626747709-34013-4-git-send-email-linyunsheng@huawei.com>
From: Yunsheng Lin
> Sent: 20 July 2021 03:22
>
> As x86 and arm64 is the two available systems that I can build
> and test the cpu_relax() implementation, so only add cpu_relax()
> implementation for x86 and arm64, other arches can be added easily
> when needed.
>
...
> +#if defined(__i386__) || defined(__x86_64__)
> +/* REP NOP (PAUSE) is a good thing to insert into busy-wait loops. */
> +static __always_inline void rep_nop(void)
> +{
> + asm volatile("rep; nop" ::: "memory");
> +}
Beware, Intel increased the stall for 'rep nop' in some recent
cpu to IIRC about 200 cycles.
They even document that this might have a detrimental effect.
It is basically far too long for the sort of thing it makes
sense to busy-wait for.
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-21 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-20 2:21 [PATCH v2 0/4] refactor the ringtest testing for ptr_ring Yunsheng Lin
2021-07-20 2:21 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] tools headers UAPI: add cache aligning related macro Yunsheng Lin
2021-07-20 2:21 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] tools headers UAPI: add kmalloc/vmalloc related interface Yunsheng Lin
2021-07-20 2:21 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] tools headers UAPI: add cpu_relax() implementation for x86 and arm64 Yunsheng Lin
2021-07-21 20:53 ` David Laight [this message]
2021-07-22 8:18 ` Yunsheng Lin
2021-07-22 8:45 ` David Laight
2021-07-20 2:21 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] tools/virtio: use common infrastructure to build ptr_ring.h Yunsheng Lin
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