mm: reduce atomic use on use_mm fast path
authorMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:03:52 +0000 (17:03 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:17:42 +0000 (07:17 -0700)
commitf68e14805085972b4e0b0ab684af37f713b9c262
tree6e0cc9e1e3f29b36ec3d7acfaf863cf9bb39ea5b
parent3d2d827f5ca5e32816194119d5c980c7e04474a6
mm: reduce atomic use on use_mm fast path

When the mm being switched to matches the active mm, we don't need to
increment and then drop the mm count.  In a simple benchmark this happens
in about 50% of time.  Making that conditional reduces contention on that
cacheline on SMP systems.

Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/mmu_context.c