From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>, dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] eal/x86: Use lock-prefixed instructions to reduce cost of rte_smp_mb()
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 11:33:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180130113316.146088f5@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3552780.vzqTqTtnLr@xps>
On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 16:47:45 +0100
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
> 15/01/2018 16:09, Konstantin Ananyev:
> > On x86 it is possible to use lock-prefixed instructions to get
> > the similar effect as mfence.
> > As pointed by Java guys, on most modern HW that gives a better
> > performance than using mfence:
> > https://shipilev.net/blog/2014/on-the-fence-with-dependencies/
> > That patch adopts that technique for rte_smp_mb() implementation.
> > On BDW 2.2 mb_autotest on single lcore reports 2X cycle reduction,
> > i.e. from ~110 to ~55 cycles per operation.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>
> > Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
>
> Applied, thanks
Does this change since lfence is one of the ways to block Spectre variant.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-30 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-01 11:12 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] test/test: introduce new test-case for rte_smp_mb() Konstantin Ananyev
2017-12-01 11:12 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] eal/x86: Use lock-prefixed instructions to reduce cost of rte_smp_mb() Konstantin Ananyev
2017-12-01 18:04 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-12-01 23:08 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2018-03-08 21:15 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-12-11 17:11 ` Bruce Richardson
2017-12-11 17:30 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2017-12-18 15:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/2] eal/x86: Optimize rte_smp_mb() and create a new test case for it Konstantin Ananyev
2017-12-18 15:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] test/test: introduce new test-case for rte_smp_mb() Konstantin Ananyev
2018-01-12 17:23 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-12 17:58 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2018-01-13 13:54 ` Wiles, Keith
2018-01-13 13:54 ` Wiles, Keith
2018-01-15 15:04 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] eal/x86: Optimize rte_smp_mb() and create a new test case for it Konstantin Ananyev
2018-01-15 15:04 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/2] test/test: introduce new test-case for rte_smp_mb() Konstantin Ananyev
2018-01-16 0:16 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-15 15:04 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 2/2] eal/x86: Use lock-prefixed instructions to reduce cost of rte_smp_mb() Konstantin Ananyev
2018-01-15 15:09 ` Konstantin Ananyev
[not found] ` <8b05f533-d146-7f97-48f4-82ddcfc3613b@redhat.com>
2018-01-16 1:54 ` [dpdk-dev] Fwd: " Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-01-29 9:29 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2018-01-29 17:29 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-01-29 15:47 ` [dpdk-dev] " Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-30 19:33 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2017-12-18 15:34 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 " Konstantin Ananyev
2017-12-18 15:46 ` Bruce Richardson
2017-12-11 17:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] test/test: introduce new test-case for rte_smp_mb() Bruce Richardson
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