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2010-02-27MIPS: Optimize spinlocks.David Daney
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>
2009-12-14locking: Convert raw_rwlock to arch_rwlockThomas Gleixner
Not strictly necessary for -rt as -rt does not have non sleeping rwlocks, but it's odd to not have a consistent naming convention. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
2009-12-14locking: Rename __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED to __ARCH_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKEDThomas Gleixner
Further name space cleanup. No functional change Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
2009-12-14locking: Convert raw_spinlock to arch_spinlockThomas Gleixner
The raw_spin* namespace was taken by lockdep for the architecture specific implementations. raw_spin_* would be the ideal name space for the spinlocks which are not converted to sleeping locks in preempt-rt. Linus suggested to convert the raw_ to arch_ locks and cleanup the name space instead of using an artifical name like core_spin, atomic_spin or whatever No functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
2008-10-11MIPS: Rewrite spinlocks to ticket locks.Ralf Baechle
Based on patch by Chad Reese of Cavium Networks. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-11MIPS: Move headfiles to new location below arch/mips/includeRalf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>