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Re: [PATCH] ipc/msg: Implement lockless pipelined wakeups

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On Sat, 31 Oct 2015, George Spelvin wrote:
> > Don't we need to keep that NULL init? I might be missing something.
> 
> I wondered the same thing, but on reading it, the cleanup is that he's
> gotten rid of the need for the entire thing.  Previously, there was a
> mechanism for detecting "wakeup not quite finished" that used a NULL
> value, but it's no longer needed.
> 
> The resultant busy-waiting on the part of the woken-up task was the
> entire problem this patch aims to fix.  So it gets rid of a whole lot
> of code and barriers.  And, as you noticed, the comments explaining them.
> 
> As the old code explained, the issue is that a task may exit as
> soon as r_msg is set, so the wakeup procedure has to be:
> - Ensure r_msg is set to NULL (special-case flag)
> - Do the wake up
> - Set r_msg to the final value
> 
> The woken-up task has to spin as long as r_msg is NULL.  Ick.
> 
> However, a wake_q keeps a reference to a task, so exiting is
> not a danger.  As long as wake_q_add precedes setting r_msg,
> all is well.

Right. I figured that after staring some more into it. Though it would
be nice if exactly that explanation is in the code.

Thanks,

	tglx

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[PATCH] ipc/msg: Implement lockless pipelined wakeups Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> - 2015-10-30 12:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] ipc/msg: Implement lockless pipelined wakeups "George Spelvin" <linux@horizon.com> - 2015-10-30 23:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] ipc/msg: Implement lockless pipelined wakeups Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> - 2015-11-03 15:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] ipc/msg: Implement lockless pipelined wakeups Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2015-10-31 11:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] ipc/msg: Implement lockless pipelined wakeups "George Spelvin" <linux@horizon.com> - 2015-10-31 14:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] ipc/msg: Implement lockless pipelined wakeups Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2015-10-31 16:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] ipc/msg: Implement lockless pipelined wakeups Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> - 2015-10-31 20:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] ipc/msg: Implement lockless pipelined wakeups Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> - 2015-10-31 20:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] ipc/msg: Implement lockless pipelined wakeups Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> - 2015-11-03 15:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] ipc/msg: Implement lockless pipelined wakeups Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> - 2015-11-03 15:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] ipc/msg: Implement lockless pipelined wakeups Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> - 2015-11-01 05:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] ipc/msg: Implement lockless pipelined wakeups Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> - 2015-11-03 16:00 +0100

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