linux/include
Waiman Long 668802c257 tick/broadcast: Reduce lock cacheline contention
It was observed that on an Intel x86 system without the ARAT (Always
running APIC timer) feature and with fairly large number of CPUs as
well as CPUs coming in and out of intel_idle frequently, the lock
contention on the tick_broadcast_lock can become significant.

To reduce contention, the lock is put into its own cacheline and all
the cpumask_var_t variables are put into the __read_mostly section.

Running the SP benchmark of the NAS Parallel Benchmarks on a 4-socket
16-core 32-thread Nehalam system, the performance number improved
from 3353.94 Mop/s to 3469.31 Mop/s when this patch was applied on
a 4.9.6 kernel.  This is a 3.4% improvement.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485799063-20857-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2017-02-04 08:54:46 +01:00
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acpi More ACPI updates for v4.10-rc1 2016-12-22 10:19:32 -08:00
asm-generic asm-prototypes: Clear any CPP defines before declaring the functions 2017-01-05 12:57:42 +01:00
clocksource
crypto This pull contains one set of changes: a conversion of the crypto DocBook 2016-12-17 16:00:34 -08:00
drm Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
dt-bindings dt-bindings: mfd: Remove TPS65217 interrupts 2016-12-27 10:06:00 -08:00
keys
kvm clocksource: Use a plain u64 instead of cycle_t 2016-12-25 11:04:12 +01:00
linux tick/broadcast: Reduce lock cacheline contention 2017-02-04 08:54:46 +01:00
math-emu
media [media] cec: pass parent device in register(), not allocate() 2016-11-29 12:07:17 -02:00
memory
misc
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-12-27 16:04:37 -08:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
rxrpc
scsi linux: drop __bitwise__ everywhere 2016-12-16 00:13:41 +02:00
soc powerpc updates for 4.10 2016-12-16 09:26:42 -08:00
sound Merge remote-tracking branches 'asoc/fix/arizona', 'asoc/fix/dpcm', 'asoc/fix/dwc', 'asoc/fix/fsl-ssi' and 'asoc/fix/hdmi-codec' into asoc-linus 2017-01-10 10:47:50 +00:00
target target: add XCOPY target/segment desc sense codes 2017-01-10 08:40:32 -08:00
trace Merge branch 'for-linus-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs 2017-01-13 17:40:22 -08:00
uapi timerfd: export defines to userspace 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
video Merge branch 'drm/next/du' of git://linuxtv.org/pinchartl/media into drm-next 2016-11-16 09:39:21 +10:00
xen xen: features and fixes for 4.10 rc0 2016-12-13 16:07:55 -08:00
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