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CachePadded: update alignment based on golang's CacheLinePadSize #636

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@taiki-e taiki-e commented Jan 2, 2021

This updates alignment of CachePadded on the following architectures based on golang's CacheLinePadSize.

On x86_64 and aarch64, use 128-byte alignment as before. See #331 and #499 for reasons.
On all others, use 64-byte alignment as before.

Closes #427

cc @stjepang (when this merged, I'll send a same patch to smol-rs/cache-padded)
FYI @yoshuawuyts @cuviper (because you all were discussing about adding CachePadded to the standard library)

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I like this change, but I'm not an expert on this and I'd like one more +1.

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Oh amazing; yes!

Adding in the references is 💯

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bors r+

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There is still the issue of some AMD CPUs fetching just 64 (maybe? I'm not an expert), but that would have to be a runtime check since we don't compile for specific CPUs so LGTM.

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@bors bors bot merged commit 92ca2da into crossbeam-rs:master Jan 3, 2021
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Indeed, all AMD CPUs still use a 64-byte cacheline size, so this implementation will use up two lines on AMD.

Previously, I had used a build script to detect target-cpu and use that to control my own CachePadded, and in the past year there has been zero progress on better target introspection in Rust, so oh well.

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taiki-e commented Jan 4, 2021

We may want to determine the principle regarding which cache line size CachePadded chooses in architectures where the actual cache line size is implementation-defined. (Currently, on x86_64 and aarch64, we refer to implementation that uses the largest cache line size.)

Previously, I had used a build script to detect target-cpu and use that to control my own CachePadded, and in the past year there has been zero progress on better target introspection in Rust, so oh well.

I think we might be able to add an option (--cfg) to detect native CPU cache line size using a build script. (It is never enabled by default for the same reason that -C target-cpu=native is optional.) But for now, it may be better to implement it as a separate crate.

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cuviper commented Jan 4, 2021

I think if you start digging that deep, it will be better served by the standard library and compiler intrinsics, where it has the canonical view of the target cpu and features.

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659: Prepare for the next release r=taiki-e a=taiki-e

It's been over two months since the previous release. There are some improvements and deprecations in the master branch, and it would be nice to release them. Also, there is no breaking change that needs a major version bump.

Changes:

- crossbeam-epoch 0.9.1 -> 0.9.2
  - Add `Atomic::compare_exchange` and `Atomic::compare_exchange_weak`. (#628)
  - Deprecate `Atomic::compare_and_set` and `Atomic::compare_and_set_weak`. (#628)
  - Make `const_fn` dependency optional. (#611)
  - Add unstable support for `loom`. (#487)
- crossbeam-utils 0.8.1 -> 0.8.2
  - Deprecate `AtomicCell::compare_and_swap`. (#619)
  - Add `Parker::park_deadline`. (#563)
  - Improve implementation of `CachePadded`. (#636)
  - Add unstable support for `loom`. (#487)


Co-authored-by: Taiki Endo <te316e89@gmail.com>
taiki-e added a commit to smol-rs/cache-padded that referenced this pull request Dec 19, 2021
taiki-e added a commit to smol-rs/cache-padded that referenced this pull request Dec 19, 2021
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