Re: [PATCH v9 04/19] qspinlock: Extract out the exchange of tail code word

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On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:03:56AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> @@ -192,36 +220,25 @@ void queue_spin_lock_slowpath(struct qspinlock *lock, u32 val)
>  	node->next = NULL;
>  
>  	/*
> +	 * We touched a (possibly) cold cacheline; attempt the trylock once
> +	 * more in the hope someone let go while we weren't watching as long
> +	 * as no one was queuing.
>  	 */
> +	if (!(val & _Q_TAIL_MASK) && queue_spin_trylock(lock))
> +		goto release;

But you just did a potentially very expensive op; @val isn't
representative anymore!
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