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From: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] tools headers UAPI: add cpu_relax() implementation for x86 and arm64
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 16:18:47 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9efd2434-feac-a385-f3c5-4a0fb0cc7706@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5db490c6f264431e91bcdbb62fcf3be5@AcuMS.aculab.com>

On 2021/7/22 4:53, David Laight wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the info:)
I will be beware of that when playing with  'rep nop' in newer
x86 cpu.

> .
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-22  8:19 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
2021-07-22  8:18     ` Yunsheng Lin [this message]
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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