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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/Makefile b/arch/mips/kernel/Makefile
index 9326af5186fe..ef20957ca14b 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/Makefile
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_GPIO_TXX9)		+= gpio_txx9.o
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_KEXEC)             += machine_kexec.o relocate_kernel.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK)      += early_printk.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_SPINLOCK_TEST)     += spinlock_test.o
 
 CFLAGS_cpu-bugs64.o     = $(shell if $(CC) $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -Wa,-mdaddi -c -o /dev/null -xc /dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo "-DHAVE_AS_SET_DADDI"; fi)