From: Alexander Monakov <amonakov@ispras.ru>
To: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>
Cc: Hongyu Wang <hongyu.wang@intel.com>,
gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, hongtao.liu@intel.com,
ubizjak@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: Reword the description of -mrelax-cmpxchg-loop [PR 107676]
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 16:28:16 +0300 (MSK) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9289c261-6aeb-2fdf-6599-4e8d77c30f8@ispras.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y3Nvq7zZT/JRhAtX@redhat.com>
On Tue, 15 Nov 2022, Jonathan Wakely via Gcc-patches wrote:
> > @item -mrelax-cmpxchg-loop
> > @opindex mrelax-cmpxchg-loop
> >-Relax cmpxchg loop by emitting an early load and compare before cmpxchg,
> >-execute pause if load value is not expected. This reduces excessive
> >-cachline bouncing when and works for all atomic logic fetch builtins
> >-that generates compare and swap loop.
> >+For compare and swap loops that emitted by some __atomic_* builtins
>
> s/that emitted/that are emitted/
>
> >+(e.g. __atomic_fetch_(or|and|xor|nand) and their __atomic_*_fetch
> >+counterparts), emit an atomic load before cmpxchg instruction. If the
>
> s/before cmpxchg/before the cmpxchg/
>
> >+loaded value is not equal to expected, execute a pause instead of
>
> s/not equal to expected/not equal to the expected/
>
> >+directly run the cmpxchg instruction. This might reduce excessive
>
> s/directly run/directly running/
This results in "... execute a pause instead of directly running the
cmpxchg instruction", which needs further TLC because:
* 'a pause' should be 'the PAUSE instruction';
* 'directly running [an instruction]' does not seem correct in context.
The option also applies to __sync builtins, not just __atomic.
How about the following:
When emitting a compare-and-swap loop for @ref{__sync Builtins}
and @ref{__atomic Builtins} lacking a native instruction, optimize
for the highly contended case by issuing an atomic load before the
@code{CMPXCHG} instruction, and invoke the @code{PAUSE} instruction
when restarting the loop.
Alexander
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-15 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-15 3:35 Hongyu Wang
2022-11-15 10:53 ` Jonathan Wakely
2022-11-15 13:28 ` Alexander Monakov [this message]
2022-11-15 13:44 ` Jonathan Wakely
2022-11-15 13:59 ` Alexander Monakov
2022-11-16 5:15 ` Hongyu Wang
2022-11-16 7:51 ` Alexander Monakov
2022-11-16 8:29 ` Hongyu Wang
2022-11-16 10:51 ` Jonathan Wakely
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