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author | Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> | 2008-10-21 04:59:15 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-10-23 12:18:20 -0400 |
commit | a8ddac7e53e89cb877965097d05adfeb1c91def3 (patch) | |
tree | db4ee686e50f7fb57b0cef20e0a8e7f06151e317 /drivers/watchdog | |
parent | 5a439c565799cb8d290d71ce375e86be64d43a4b (diff) |
mutex: speed up generic mutex implementations
- atomic operations which both modify the variable and return something imply
full smp memory barriers before and after the memory operations involved
(failing atomic_cmpxchg, atomic_add_unless, etc don't imply a barrier because
they don't modify the target). See Documentation/atomic_ops.txt.
So remove extra barriers and branches.
- All architectures support atomic_cmpxchg. This has no relation to
__HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG. We can just take the atomic_cmpxchg path unconditionally
This reduces a simple single threaded fastpath lock+unlock test from 590 cycles
to 203 cycles on a ppc970 system.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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