From 8f8dcb3f7fe4febbfa96e64d4ad47de958c5cc34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Turner Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 14:35:05 -0700 Subject: alpha: select CONFIG_ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF. On Alpha we have spinlocks that are 32b in size and an efficient cmpxchg64 implementation, so we qualify to make use of cmpxchg backed lockrefs. Select the ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF Kconfig symbol and provide a trivial implementation of arch_spin_value_unlocked to satisfy the lockref code. Using Linus' simple testcase from http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/77466 on a dual CPU ES47 system I see around an 8% gain: N Min Max Median Avg Stddev x 30 6194580 6295654 6272504 6272514 17694.232 + 30 6731164 6786334 6767982 6764274 13738.863 Difference at 95.0% confidence 491760 +/- 8188.17 7.83992% +/- 0.130541% (Student's t, pooled s = 15840.5) Signed-off-by: Matt Turner --- arch/alpha/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'arch/alpha/Kconfig') diff --git a/arch/alpha/Kconfig b/arch/alpha/Kconfig index bf9e9d3b3792..f515a4dbf7a0 100644 --- a/arch/alpha/Kconfig +++ b/arch/alpha/Kconfig @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ config ALPHA default y select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_PARPORT select ARCH_MIGHT_HAVE_PC_SERIO + select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF select HAVE_AOUT select HAVE_IDE select HAVE_OPROFILE -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2