On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 09:17:50AM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 11:03:01AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 07:13:04PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 08:09:09AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 02:24:40PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > >
> > > > > I must say I'm somewhat surprised by this level of relaxation, I had
> > > > > expected to only loose SMP barriers, not the program order ones.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there a good argument for this?
> > > >
> > > > Yes, when we say "relaxed", we really mean relaxed. ;-)
> > > >
> > > > Both the CPU and the compiler are allowed to reorder around relaxed
> > > > operations.
> > >
> > > Is this documented somewhere, because I completely missed this part.
> >
> > Well, yes, these need to be added to the documentation. I am assuming
>
> Maybe it's good time for us to call it out which operation should be
> a compiler barrier or a CPU barrier?
>
> I had something in my mind while I was working on this series, not
> really sure whether it's correct, but probably a start point:
>
> All global and local atomic operations are at least atomic(no one can
> observe the middle state) and volatile(compilers can't optimize out the
> memory access). Based on this, there are four strictness levels, one
> can rely on them:
>
> RELAXED: neither a compiler barrier or a CPU barrier
> LOCAL: a compiler barrier
> PARTIAL: both a compiler barrier and a CPU barrier but not transitive
> FULL: both compiler barrier and a CPU barrier, and transitive.
>
> RELAXED includes all _relaxed variants and non-return atomics, LOCAL
> includes all local atomics(local_* and {cmp}xchg_local), PARTIAL
> includes _acquire and _release operations and FULL includes all fully
> ordered global atomic operations.
>
> Thoughts?
I think that's where we currently are already, apart from defining
transitivity (see the other thread), which makes things a whole lot more
muddy.
That said, on Friday we seemed to be in broad agreement on the semantics
-- the difficult part is getting the language right (which is why we
started to discuss including litmus tests alongside the documentation).
Will
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