Hi all,
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 08:37:43PM +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> while reviewing 2.6.17-rc6-mm1, I found some places that might
> want to make use of cpu_relax() in order to not block secondary
> pipelines while busy-polling (probably especially useful on SMT CPUs):
Patch no. 2 of 3.
This could be considered overkill given the previous unlikely(),
but it is busy-looping on failure after all...
Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <[email protected]>
diff -urN linux-2.6.17-rc6-mm2.orig/include/asm-i386/acpi.h linux-2.6.17-rc6-mm2.my/include/asm-i386/acpi.h
--- linux-2.6.17-rc6-mm2.orig/include/asm-i386/acpi.h 2006-06-08 10:38:10.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc6-mm2.my/include/asm-i386/acpi.h 2006-06-13 19:35:41.000000000 +0200
@@ -61,11 +61,14 @@
__acpi_acquire_global_lock (unsigned int *lock)
{
unsigned int old, new, val;
- do {
+ while (1) {
old = *lock;
new = (((old & ~0x3) + 2) + ((old >> 1) & 0x1));
val = cmpxchg(lock, old, new);
- } while (unlikely (val != old));
+ if (likely(val == old))
+ break;
+ cpu_relax();
+ }
return (new < 3) ? -1 : 0;
}
@@ -73,11 +76,14 @@
__acpi_release_global_lock (unsigned int *lock)
{
unsigned int old, new, val;
- do {
+ while (1) {
old = *lock;
new = old & ~0x3;
val = cmpxchg(lock, old, new);
- } while (unlikely (val != old));
+ if (likely(val == old))
+ break;
+ cpu_relax();
+ }
return old & 0x1;
}
-
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