Re: [RFC] implement QUEUED spinlocks on powerpc

On Wed, 2017-02-01 at 09:05 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:

Hi all

Is anybody working on adding QUEUED spinlocks to powerpc 64bit ?

I've seen past attempts with ticket spinlocks
( https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/449381/ and other related links
)

But it looks ticket spinlocks are a thing of the past.

Yes, we have a tentative implementation of qspinlock and pv variants:

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/703139/
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/703140/
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/703141/
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/703142/
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/703143/
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/703144/

Michael, what's the status with getting that merged ?

Cheers,
Ben.