Re: [PATCH] Convert powerpc simple spinlocks into ticket locks

On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 02:19:52PM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:

On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 18:37 +0100, Torsten Duwe wrote:

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On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 05:38:37PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

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Can you pair lwarx with sthcx ? I couldn't immediately find the answer
in the PowerISA doc. If so I think you can do better by being able to
atomically load both tickets but only storing the head without affecting
the tail.

Can I simply write the half word, without a reservation, or will the HW caches
mess up the other half? Will it ruin the cache coherency on some (sub)architectures?

Plus, sthcx doesn't exist on all PPC chips.

Which ones are lacking it? Do all have at least a simple 16-bit store?

	Torsten