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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2013-11-19 16:13:38 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2014-01-13 13:47:36 +0100
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locking: Optimize lock_bh functions
Currently all _bh_ lock functions do two preempt_count operations: local_bh_disable(); preempt_disable(); and for the unlock: preempt_enable_no_resched(); local_bh_enable(); Since its a waste of perfectly good cycles to modify the same variable twice when you can do it in one go; use the new __local_bh_{dis,en}able_ip() functions that allow us to provide a preempt_count value to add/sub. So define SOFTIRQ_LOCK_OFFSET as the offset a _bh_ lock needs to add/sub to be done in one go. As a bonus it gets rid of the preempt_enable_no_resched() usage. This reduces a 1000 loops of: spin_lock_bh(&bh_lock); spin_unlock_bh(&bh_lock); from 53596 cycles to 51995 cycles. I didn't do enough measurements to say for absolute sure that the result is significant but the the few runs I did for each suggest it is so. Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com Cc: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de> Cc: hpa@zytor.com Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: lenb@kernel.org Cc: rjw@rjwysocki.net Cc: rui.zhang@intel.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131119151338.GF3694@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/preempt_mask.h b/include/linux/preempt_mask.h
index d169820203dd..b8d96bca4357 100644
--- a/include/linux/preempt_mask.h
+++ b/include/linux/preempt_mask.h
@@ -79,6 +79,21 @@
#endif
/*
+ * The preempt_count offset needed for things like:
+ *
+ * spin_lock_bh()
+ *
+ * Which need to disable both preemption (CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT) and
+ * softirqs, such that unlock sequences of:
+ *
+ * spin_unlock();
+ * local_bh_enable();
+ *
+ * Work as expected.
+ */
+#define SOFTIRQ_LOCK_OFFSET (SOFTIRQ_DISABLE_OFFSET + PREEMPT_CHECK_OFFSET)
+
+/*
* Are we running in atomic context? WARNING: this macro cannot
* always detect atomic context; in particular, it cannot know about
* held spinlocks in non-preemptible kernels. Thus it should not be