From: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 16:14:44 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: sched/idle/x86: Optimize unnecessary mwait_idle() resched IPIs
X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v4.1/fixes-rc1~198^2~23
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f8e617f4582995f7c25ef25b4167213120ad122b;p=pandora-kernel.git

sched/idle/x86: Optimize unnecessary mwait_idle() resched IPIs

To fully take advantage of MWAIT, apparently the CLFLUSH instruction needs
another quirk on certain CPUs: proper barriers around it on certain machines.

On a Q6600 SMP system, pipe-test scheduling performance, cross core,
improves significantly:

  3.8.13                   487.2 KHz    1.000
  3.13.0-master            415.5 KHz     .852
  3.13.0-master+           415.2 KHz     .852     + restore mwait_idle
  3.13.0-master++          488.5 KHz    1.002     + restore mwait_idle + IPI fix

Since X86_BUG_CLFLUSH_MONITOR is already a quirk, don't create a separate
quirk for the extra smp_mb()s.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.10+
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ian Malone <ibmalone@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390061684.5566.4.camel@marge.simpson.net
[ Ported to recent kernel, added comments about the quirk. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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