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authorHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>2014-09-08 10:20:43 +0400
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2014-09-09 10:53:30 +0400
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parent3d1e220d08c6a00ffa83d39030b8162f66665b2b (diff)
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s390/spinlock: optimize spin_unlock code
Use a memory barrier + store sequence instead of a load + compare and swap sequence to unlock a spinlock and an rw lock. For the spinlock case this saves us two memory reads and a not needed cpu serialization after the compare and swap instruction stored the new value. The kernel size (performance_defconfig) gets reduced by ~14k. Average execution time of a tight inlined spin_unlock loop drops from 5.8ns to 0.7ns on a zEC12 machine. An artificial stress test case where several counters are protected with a single spinlock and which are only incremented while holding the spinlock shows ~30% improvement on a 4 cpu machine. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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