Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] qrwlock: Use the mcs_spinlock helper functionsfor MCS queuing

[Tim Chen]

On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 13:21 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 12:17:20PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> > There is a pending patch in the rwsem patch series that adds a generic
> > MCS locking helper functions to do MCS-style locking. This patch
> > will enable the queue rwlock to use that generic MCS lock/unlock
> > primitives for internal queuing. This patch should only be merged
> > after the merging of that generic MCS locking patch.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@xxxxxx>
> 
> This one does might address at least some of the earlier memory-barrier
> issues, at least assuming that the MCS lock is properly memory-barriered.

Paul, will appreciate if you can take a look the latest version
of MCS lock with load-acquire and store-release to see if it is now
properly memory-barriered.

Thanks.

Tim

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