linux/arch/score
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
..
boot score: Add support for Sunplus S+core architecture 2009-06-19 11:38:47 +02:00
configs KEYS: CONFIG_KEYS_DEBUG_PROC_KEYS is no longer an option 2016-02-10 10:13:27 +00:00
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 score: Fix exception handler label 2015-06-10 10:19:47 -07:00
mm treewide: replace obsolete _refok by __ref 2016-08-02 17:31:41 -04:00
Kconfig lib/GCD.c: use binary GCD algorithm instead of Euclidean 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
Kconfig.debug score: Fix typo in Kconfig.debug 2012-02-05 17:14:48 +01:00
Makefile Score: Modify the Makefile of Score, remove -mlong-calls for compiling 2013-09-26 03:46:03 +08:00