From: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:59:45 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Factor out #ifdefs from kernel/spinlock.c to LOCK_CONTENDED_FLAGS
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.30-rc1~250
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e8c158bb313c1df421eab7dc4299cd39cbbf5895;p=pandora-kernel.git

Factor out #ifdefs from kernel/spinlock.c to LOCK_CONTENDED_FLAGS

SGI has observed that on large systems, interrupts are not serviced for a
long period of time when waiting for a rwlock.  The following patch series
re-enables irqs while waiting for the lock, resembling the code which is
already there for spinlocks.

I only made the ia64 version, because the patch adds some overhead to the
fast path.  I assume there is currently no demand to have this for other
architectures, because the systems are not so large.  Of course, the
possibility to implement raw_{read|write}_lock_flags for any architecture
is still there.

This patch:

The new macro LOCK_CONTENDED_FLAGS expands to the correct implementation
depending on the config options, so that IRQ's are re-enabled when
possible, but they remain disabled if CONFIG_LOCKDEP is set.

Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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