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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 13:38:37 -0700
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@...il.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/17] prmem: documentation
> On Oct 31, 2018, at 3:11 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 12:15:46AM +0200, Igor Stoppa wrote:
>> On 30/10/2018 23:02, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
>>> But I dislike allowing regular writes in the protected region. We
>>> really only need four write primitives:
>>>
>>> 1. Just write one value. Call at any time (except NMI).
>>>
>>> 2. Just copy some bytes. Same as (1) but any number of bytes.
>>>
>>> 3,4: Same as 1 and 2 but must be called inside a special rare write
>>> region. This is purely an optimization.
>>
>> Atomic? RCU?
>
> RCU can be done, that's not really a problem. Atomics otoh are a
> problem. Having pointers makes them just work.
>
> Andy; I understand your reason for not wanting them, but I really don't
> want to duplicate everything. Is there something we can do with static
> analysis to make you more comfortable with the pointer thing?
I’m sure we could do something with static analysis, but I think seeing a real use case where all this fanciness makes sense would be good.
And I don’t know if s390 *can* have an efficient implementation that uses pointers. OTOH they have all kinds of magic stuff, so who knows?
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