MIPS: Crazy spinlock speed test.
authorDavid Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:26:35 +0000 (15:26 -0800)
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:53:42 +0000 (12:53 +0100)
commitbba90760582d2563b28a4738fb785185a59e9e71
treeb1efda424d8ab0ef24220ce4da484819d749e2b2
parent500c2e1fdbcc2b273bd4c695a9b8ac8196f61614
MIPS: Crazy spinlock speed test.

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>
arch/mips/Kconfig.debug
arch/mips/kernel/Makefile
arch/mips/kernel/spinlock_test.c [new file with mode: 0644]