From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, ying.huang@intel.com, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Subject: [PATCH -mm -v2 3/5] llist, Move cpu_relax after cmpxchg Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 14:00:44 +0800 [thread overview] Message-ID: <1315461646-1379-4-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <1315461646-1379-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com> If the first cmpxchg calling succeeds, it is not necessary to use cpu_relax before cmpxchg. So cpu_relax in a busy loop involving cmpxchg should go after cmpxchg instead of before that. This patch fixes this in llist. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> --- include/linux/llist.h | 21 +++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/llist.h +++ b/include/linux/llist.h @@ -156,11 +156,14 @@ static inline void llist_add(struct llis CHECK_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG(); entry = head->first; - do { + for (;;) { old_entry = entry; new->next = entry; + entry = cmpxchg(&head->first, old_entry, new); + if (entry == old_entry) + break; cpu_relax(); - } while ((entry = cmpxchg(&head->first, old_entry, new)) != old_entry); + } } /** @@ -178,11 +181,14 @@ static inline void llist_add_batch(struc CHECK_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG(); entry = head->first; - do { + for (;;) { old_entry = entry; new_last->next = entry; + entry = cmpxchg(&head->first, old_entry, new_first); + if (entry == old_entry) + break; cpu_relax(); - } while ((entry = cmpxchg(&head->first, old_entry, new_first)) != old_entry); + } } /** @@ -206,13 +212,16 @@ static inline struct llist_node *llist_d CHECK_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG(); entry = head->first; - do { + for (;;) { if (entry == NULL) return NULL; old_entry = entry; next = entry->next; + entry = cmpxchg(&head->first, old_entry, next); + if (entry == old_entry) + break; cpu_relax(); - } while ((entry = cmpxchg(&head->first, old_entry, next)) != old_entry); + } return entry; }
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-08 6:01 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2011-09-08 6:00 [PATCH -mm -v2 0/5] irq_work, Use llist in irq_work Huang Ying 2011-09-08 6:00 ` [PATCH -mm -v2 1/5] llist, Make all llist functions inline Huang Ying 2011-09-08 6:00 ` [PATCH -mm -v2 2/5] llist, Define macro to check NMI safe cmpxchg Huang Ying 2011-09-08 6:00 ` Huang Ying [this message] 2011-09-08 6:00 ` [PATCH -mm -v2 4/5] llist, Return whether list is empty before adding in llist_add Huang Ying 2011-09-08 6:00 ` [PATCH -mm -v2 5/5] irq_work, Use llist in irq_work Huang Ying 2011-09-12 14:05 ` [PATCH 6/5] llist: Add llist_next() Peter Zijlstra 2011-09-12 14:05 ` [PATCH 7/5] sched: Convert to use llist Peter Zijlstra 2011-09-12 14:05 ` [PATCH 8/5] llist: Remove cpu_relax() usage in cmpxchg loops Peter Zijlstra 2011-09-12 14:23 ` Andi Kleen 2011-09-12 14:23 ` Peter Zijlstra 2011-09-12 14:47 ` Mathieu Desnoyers 2011-09-12 15:09 ` Peter Zijlstra 2011-09-12 15:24 ` Peter Zijlstra 2011-09-12 16:38 ` Andi Kleen 2011-09-12 18:53 ` Peter Zijlstra 2011-09-12 14:26 ` Avi Kivity 2011-09-12 14:32 ` Peter Zijlstra 2011-09-13 11:43 ` Avi Kivity 2011-09-13 14:22 ` Peter Zijlstra 2011-09-13 14:51 ` Avi Kivity 2011-09-13 14:53 ` Peter Zijlstra 2011-09-12 14:06 ` [PATCH -mm -v2 0/5] irq_work, Use llist in irq_work Peter Zijlstra
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