From: Jason Low Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 17:27:49 +0000 (-0700) Subject: locking/spinlocks/mcs: Convert osq lock to atomic_t to reduce overhead X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v3.17/fixes-against-rc2~262^2~7 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=90631822c5d307b5410500806e8ac3e63928aa3e;p=pandora-kernel.git locking/spinlocks/mcs: Convert osq lock to atomic_t to reduce overhead The cancellable MCS spinlock is currently used to queue threads that are doing optimistic spinning. It uses per-cpu nodes, where a thread obtaining the lock would access and queue the local node corresponding to the CPU that it's running on. Currently, the cancellable MCS lock is implemented by using pointers to these nodes. In this patch, instead of operating on pointers to the per-cpu nodes, we store the CPU numbers in which the per-cpu nodes correspond to in atomic_t. A similar concept is used with the qspinlock. By operating on the CPU # of the nodes using atomic_t instead of pointers to those nodes, this can reduce the overhead of the cancellable MCS spinlock by 32 bits (on 64 bit systems). Signed-off-by: Jason Low Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Scott Norton Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Waiman Long Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Tim Chen Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Josef Bacik Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1405358872-3732-3-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-diff-tree failed