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MIPS: Crazy spinlock speed test.

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This is just a test program for raw_spinlocks.  The main reason I
wrote it is to validate my spinlock changes that I sent in a previous
patch.

To use it enable CONFIG_DEBUG_FS and CONFIG_SPINLOCK_TEST then at run
time do:

# mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug/
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/mips/spin_single
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/mips/spin_multi

On my 600MHz octeon cn5860 (16 CPUs) I get

		spin_single	spin_multi
base		106885		247941
spinlock_patch	75194		219465

This shows that for uncontended locks the spinlock patch gives 41%
improvement and for contended locks 12% improvement (1/time).

Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/969/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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David Daney
2010-02-16 15:26:35 -08:00
committed by Ralf Baechle
parent 500c2e1fdb
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@ -121,4 +121,11 @@ config DEBUG_ZBOOT
to reduce the kernel image size and speed up the booting procedure a
little.
config SPINLOCK_TEST
bool "Enable spinlock timing tests in debugfs"
depends on DEBUG_FS
default n
help
Add several files to the debugfs to test spinlock speed.
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