Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] powerpc: queued spinlocks and rwlocks

From: Waiman Long
Date: Wed Jul 08 2020 - 19:54:42 EST


On 7/8/20 4:41 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 03:57:06PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
Yes, powerpc could certainly get more performance out of the slow
paths, and then there are a few parameters to tune.
Can you clarify? The slow path is already in use on ARM64 which is weak,
so I doubt there's superfluous serialization present. And Will spend a
fair amount of time on making that thing guarantee forward progressm, so
there just isn't too much room to play.

We don't have a good alternate patching for function calls yet, but
that would be something to do for native vs pv.
Going by your jump_label implementation, support for static_call should
be fairly straight forward too, no?

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200624153024.794671356@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Speaking of static_call, I am also looking forward to it. Do you have an idea when that will be merged?

Cheers,
Longman