Re: 50 Watt idle power regression bisected to Linux-3.10
From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Dec 11 2013 - 12:47:26 EST
* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 03:42:38PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Another thing that is required I think is to issue a write barrier
> > before CLFLUSH instruction. By my (possibly incorrect ...) reading of
> > the documentation CLFLUSH does not appear to be ordered (at all), so
> > it might execute before the modification to the affected memory?
> >
> >
> > So something like:
> >
> > if (this_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CLFLUSH_MONITOR)) {
> > smp_wmb(); /* order CLFLUSH */
> > clflush(¤t_thread_info()->flags);
> > }
>
> smp_wmb() is a NO-OP on x86 remember :-)
Well, it's a compiler barrier but yes - I suspect a smp_mb() might be
needed - at least according to the CLFLUSH documentation it has no
implicit guaranteed ordering wrt. preceding writes.
Thanks,
Ingo
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