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MIPS: Optimize spinlocks.

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The current locking mechanism uses a ll/sc sequence to release a
spinlock.  This is slower than a wmb() followed by a store to unlock.

The branching forward to .subsection 2 on sc failure slows down the
contended case.  So we get rid of that part too.

Since we are now working on naturally aligned u16 values, we can get
rid of a masking operation as the LHU already does the right thing.
The ANDI are reversed for better scheduling on multi-issue CPUs

On a 12 CPU 750MHz Octeon cn5750 this patch improves ipv4 UDP packet
forwarding rates from 3.58*10^6 PPS to 3.99*10^6 PPS, or about 11%.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/937/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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David Daney
2010-02-04 11:31:49 -08:00
committed by Ralf Baechle
parent e275ed5ee9
commit 500c2e1fdb
3 changed files with 67 additions and 81 deletions
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arch/mips/include/asm/barrier.h
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@@ -168,8 +168,14 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_CAVIUM_OCTEON
#define smp_mb__before_llsc() smp_wmb()
/* Cause previous writes to become visible on all CPUs as soon as possible */
#define nudge_writes() __asm__ __volatile__(".set push\n\t" \
".set arch=octeon\n\t" \
"syncw\n\t" \
".set pop" : : : "memory")
#else
#define smp_mb__before_llsc() smp_llsc_mb()
#define nudge_writes() mb()
#endif
#endif /* __ASM_BARRIER_H */