Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/3] rwlock: reimplement with atomic builtins

["Ananyev, Konstantin" <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>]

Hi,


> The __sync builtin based implementation generates full memory
> barriers ('dmb ish') on Arm platforms. Using C11 atomic builtins
> to generate one way barriers.
> 
> Here is the assembly code of __sync_compare_and_swap builtin.
> __sync_bool_compare_and_swap(dst, exp, src);
>    0x000000000090f1b0 <+16>:    e0 07 40 f9 ldr x0, [sp, #8]
>    0x000000000090f1b4 <+20>:    e1 0f 40 79 ldrh    w1, [sp, #6]
>    0x000000000090f1b8 <+24>:    e2 0b 40 79 ldrh    w2, [sp, #4]
>    0x000000000090f1bc <+28>:    21 3c 00 12 and w1, w1, #0xffff
>    0x000000000090f1c0 <+32>:    03 7c 5f 48 ldxrh   w3, [x0]
>    0x000000000090f1c4 <+36>:    7f 00 01 6b cmp w3, w1
>    0x000000000090f1c8 <+40>:    61 00 00 54 b.ne    0x90f1d4
> <rte_atomic16_cmpset+52>  // b.any
>    0x000000000090f1cc <+44>:    02 fc 04 48 stlxrh  w4, w2, [x0]
>    0x000000000090f1d0 <+48>:    84 ff ff 35 cbnz    w4, 0x90f1c0
> <rte_atomic16_cmpset+32>
>    0x000000000090f1d4 <+52>:    bf 3b 03 d5 dmb ish
>    0x000000000090f1d8 <+56>:    e0 17 9f 1a cset    w0, eq  // eq = none
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
> Tested-by: Joyce Kong <joyce.kong@arm.com>
> Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
> ---

Wouldn't it be plausible to change _try_ functions to use __atomic too (for consistency)?
Apart from that looks good to me.
Konstantin