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Michael Ellerman
3405d230b3 powerpc: Add support for the optimised lockref implementation
This commit adds the architecture support required to enable the
optimised implementation of lockrefs.

That's as simple as defining arch_spin_value_unlocked() and selecting
the Kconfig option.

We also define cmpxchg64_relaxed(), because the lockref code does not
need the cmpxchg to have barrier semantics.

Using Linus' test case[1] on one system I see a 4x improvement for the
basic enablement, and a further 1.3x for cmpxchg64_relaxed(), for a
total of 5.3x vs the baseline.

On another system I see more like 2x improvement.

[1]: http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=137782380714721&w=4

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2014-01-28 14:45:43 +11:00
David Howells
ae3a197e3d Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC
Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
2012-03-28 18:30:02 +01:00