linux/arch/ia64
Christian Borntraeger 79ab11cdb9 locking/core: Introduce cpu_relax_yield()
For spinning loops people do often use barrier() or cpu_relax().
For most architectures cpu_relax and barrier are the same, but on
some architectures cpu_relax can add some latency.
For example on power,sparc64 and arc, cpu_relax can shift the CPU
towards other hardware threads in an SMT environment.
On s390 cpu_relax does even more, it uses an hypercall to the
hypervisor to give up the timeslice.
In contrast to the SMT yielding this can result in larger latencies.
In some places this latency is unwanted, so another variant
"cpu_relax_lowlatency" was introduced. Before this is used in more
and more places, lets revert the logic and provide a cpu_relax_yield
that can be called in places where yielding is more important than
latency. By default this is the same as cpu_relax on all architectures.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Noam Camus <noamc@ezchip.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477386195-32736-2-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-11-16 10:15:09 +01:00
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configs [IA64] refresh arch/ia64/configs/* using "make savedefconfig" 2014-09-23 11:09:29 -07:00
dig Disintegrate asm/system.h for IA64 2012-03-28 18:30:02 +01:00
hp [kbuild] handle exports in lib-y objects reliably 2016-08-07 23:46:30 -04:00
include locking/core: Introduce cpu_relax_yield() 2016-11-16 10:15:09 +01:00
kernel Merge branch 'gup_flag-cleanups' 2016-10-19 08:39:47 -07:00
lib ia64: move exports to definitions 2016-08-07 23:55:50 -04:00
mm mm: do not pass mm_struct into handle_mm_fault 2016-07-26 16:19:19 -07:00
oprofile Disintegrate asm/system.h for IA64 2012-03-28 18:30:02 +01:00
pci PCI: Set ROM shadow location in arch code, not in PCI core 2016-03-08 12:14:31 -06:00
scripts ia64: remove paravirt code 2015-06-10 14:26:32 -07:00
sn dma-mapping: use unsigned long for dma_attrs 2016-08-04 08:50:07 -04:00
uv ia64: change to new flag variables 2011-03-17 14:02:56 +01:00
install.sh
Kconfig Implements HARDENED_USERCOPY verification of copy_to_user/copy_from_user 2016-08-08 14:48:14 -07:00
Kconfig.debug
Makefile kbuild: drop redundant "PHONY += FORCE" 2016-04-20 10:38:40 +02:00
module.lds