x86: optimize lock prefix switching to run less frequently

On VMs implemented using JITs that cache translated code changing the lock
prefixes is a quite costly operation that forces the JIT to throw away and
retranslate a lot of code.

Previously a SMP kernel would rewrite the locks once for each CPU which
is quite unnecessary. This patch changes the code to never switch at boot in
 the normal case (SMP kernel booting with >1 CPU) or only once for SMP kernel
on UP.

This makes a significant difference in boot up performance on AMD SimNow!
Also I expect it to be a little faster on native systems too because a smp
switch does a lot of text_poke()s which each synchronize the pipeline.

v1->v2: Rename max_cpus
v1->v2: Fix off by one in UP check (Thomas Gleixner)

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/smp.h b/include/linux/smp.h
index c25e66bcecf..55232ccf9cf 100644
--- a/include/linux/smp.h
+++ b/include/linux/smp.h
@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@ int on_each_cpu(void (*func) (void *info), void *info, int retry, int wait);
  */
 void smp_prepare_boot_cpu(void);
 
+extern unsigned int setup_max_cpus;
+
 #else /* !SMP */
 
 /*