Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] locking/qspinlock: Introduce CNA into the slow path of qspinlock

From: Alex Kogan
Date: Tue Jul 16 2019 - 10:31:42 EST



> On Jul 16, 2019, at 7:05 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 03:25:34PM -0400, Alex Kogan wrote:
>> +/**
>> + * find_successor - Scan the main waiting queue looking for the first
>> + * thread running on the same node as the lock holder. If found (call it
>> + * thread T), move all threads in the main queue between the lock holder
>> + * and T to the end of the secondary queue and return T; otherwise, return NULL.
>> + */
>> +static struct cna_node *find_successor(struct mcs_spinlock *me)
>
> Either don't use a kernel doc comment, but if you must, you have to
> stick to their format, otherwise we'll get endless stupid patches fixing
> up the stupid comment.
Will fix that.

Thanks,
â Alex