On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:04:25AM -0500, Peter Bergner wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 21:48 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > Given Torvald's comment, can you verify whether your hw txn succeeds
> > > (all the way to commit) or whether it is failing and somehow skips
> > > the fall through code that
On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 21:48 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Given Torvald's comment, can you verify whether your hw txn succeeds
> > (all the way to commit) or whether it is failing and somehow skips
> > the fall through code that is hanging for us (Power and S390)?
>
> All the 3 transactions in reen
> Given Torvald's comment, can you verify whether your hw txn succeeds
> (all the way to commit) or whether it is failing and somehow skips
> the fall through code that is hanging for us (Power and S390)?
All the 3 transactions in reentrant.c abort. That's not surprising,
because there are usually
On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 18:41 +0200, Torvald Riegel wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 19:44 -0500, Peter Bergner wrote:
> > I'll note that if I hack the call to
> > htm_abort_should_retry(ret) so that we break of of the loop and fallback
> > to SW TM, then the test case executes correctly.
>
> That mat
On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 11:22 -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Peter Bergner writes:
> >
> > I have yet to track down who has the write lock and why, but I am working
> > towards that. Talking with Andreas, he said he is seeing the same failure
> > on S390, so I'm wondering whether this might be a generi
Peter Bergner writes:
>
> I have yet to track down who has the write lock and why, but I am working
> towards that. Talking with Andreas, he said he is seeing the same failure
> on S390, so I'm wondering whether this might be a generic libitm issue
> and it might hit Intel too. Does anyone know
On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 19:44 -0500, Peter Bergner wrote:
> I'm currently implementing support for hardware transactional memory in
> the rs6000 backend for POWER8. Things seem to be mostly working, but I
> have run into a few issues I'm wondering whether other people are seeing.
>
> For me, all of
Hi Peter,
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 2:44 AM, Peter Bergner wrote:
> I'm currently implementing support for hardware transactional memory in
> the rs6000 backend for POWER8. Things seem to be mostly working, but I
> have run into a few issues I'm wondering whether other people are seeing.
It sound
