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SubjectRe: [PATCH -next 0/2] fs/epoll: loosen irq safety when possible
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 01:05:59PM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2018, Andrew Morton wrote:

> >I'm surprised. Is spin_lock_irqsave() significantly more expensive
> >than spin_lock_irq()? Relative to all the other stuff those functions
> >are doing? If so, how come? Some architectural thing makes
> >local_irq_save() much more costly than local_irq_disable()?
>
> For example, if you compare x86 native_restore_fl() to xen_restore_fl(),
> the cost of Xen is much higher.

Xen is a moot argument. IIRC the point is that POPF (as used by
*irqrestore()) is a very expensive operation because it changes all
flags and thus has very 'difficult' instruction dependencies, killing
the front end reorder and generating a giant bubble in the pipeline.

Similarly, I suppose PUSHF is an expensive instruction because it needs
all the flags 'stable' and thus needs to wait for a fair number of prior
instructions to retire before it can get on with it.

Combined the whole PUSHF + POPF is _far_ more expensive than STI + CLI,
because the latter only has dependencies on instructions that muck about
with IF -- not that many.

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