On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 12:04:09PM +0100, Jonas Oberhauser wrote: > > I think ARM64 approached this problem by adding the > > load-acquire/store-release instructions and for TSO based code, > > translate into those (eg. x86 -> arm64 transpilers). > > > Although those instructions have a bit more ordering constraints. > > I have heard rumors that the apple chips also have a register that can be > set at runtime. Oh, I thought they made do with the load-acquire/store-release thingies. But to be fair, I haven't been paying *that* much attention to the apple stuff. I did read about how they fudged some of the x86 flags thing. > And there are some IBM machines that have a setting, but not sure how it is > controlled. Cute, I'm assuming this is the Power series (s390 already being TSO)? I wasn't aware they had this. > > IIRC Risc-V actually has such instructions as well, so *why* are you > > doing this?!?! > > > Unfortunately, at least last time I checked RISC-V still hadn't gotten such > instructions. > What they have is the *semantics* of the instructions, but no actual opcodes > to encode them. Well, that sucks.. > I argued for them in the RISC-V memory group, but it was considered to be > outside the scope of that group. > > Transpiling with sufficient DMB ISH to get the desired ordering is really > bad for performance. Ha!, quite dreadful I would imagine. > That is not to say that linux should support this. Perhaps linux should > pressure RISC-V into supporting implicit barriers instead. I'm not sure I count for much in this regard, but yeah, that sounds like a plan :-)
