RCU does not do dynamic allocations but it increments per cpu variables
a lot. These instructions results in a move to a register and then back
to memory. This patch will make it use the inc/dec instructions on x86
that do not need a register.
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
---
kernel/rcutorture.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/rcutorture.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/rcutorture.c 2009-09-28 10:08:10.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/rcutorture.c 2009-09-29 09:02:00.000000000 -0500
@@ -731,13 +731,13 @@ static void rcu_torture_timer(unsigned l
/* Should not happen, but... */
pipe_count = RCU_TORTURE_PIPE_LEN;
}
- ++__get_cpu_var(rcu_torture_count)[pipe_count];
+ __this_cpu_inc(per_cpu_var(rcu_torture_count)[pipe_count]);
completed = cur_ops->completed() - completed;
if (completed > RCU_TORTURE_PIPE_LEN) {
/* Should not happen, but... */
completed = RCU_TORTURE_PIPE_LEN;
}
- ++__get_cpu_var(rcu_torture_batch)[completed];
+ __this_cpu_inc(per_cpu_var(rcu_torture_batch)[completed]);
preempt_enable();
cur_ops->readunlock(idx);
}
@@ -786,13 +786,13 @@ rcu_torture_reader(void *arg)
/* Should not happen, but... */
pipe_count = RCU_TORTURE_PIPE_LEN;
}
- ++__get_cpu_var(rcu_torture_count)[pipe_count];
+ __this_cpu_inc(per_cpu_var(rcu_torture_count)[pipe_count]);
completed = cur_ops->completed() - completed;
if (completed > RCU_TORTURE_PIPE_LEN) {
/* Should not happen, but... */
completed = RCU_TORTURE_PIPE_LEN;
}
- ++__get_cpu_var(rcu_torture_batch)[completed];
+ __this_cpu_inc(per_cpu_var(rcu_torture_batch)[completed]);
preempt_enable();
cur_ops->readunlock(idx);
schedule();
--