From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com [148.163.156.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3tXLT94FKYzDvyG for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2016 21:23:57 +1100 (AEDT) Received: from pps.filterd (m0098396.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.17/8.16.0.17) with SMTP id uB5AK1r1069196 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2016 05:23:55 -0500 Received: from e28smtp02.in.ibm.com (e28smtp02.in.ibm.com [125.16.236.2]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2753tgpwc7-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 05 Dec 2016 05:23:55 -0500 Received: from localhost by e28smtp02.in.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Mon, 5 Dec 2016 15:53:52 +0530 Received: from d28relay06.in.ibm.com (d28relay06.in.ibm.com [9.184.220.150]) by d28dlp03.in.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D54061258061 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2016 15:54:56 +0530 (IST) Received: from d28av04.in.ibm.com (d28av04.in.ibm.com [9.184.220.66]) by d28relay06.in.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id uB5ANniv3670108 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2016 15:53:49 +0530 Received: from d28av04.in.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d28av04.in.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id uB5ANiNJ028010 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2016 15:53:48 +0530 From: Pan Xinhui To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au, peterz@infradead.org, mingo@redhat.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, waiman.long@hpe.com, xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, boqun.feng@gmail.com Subject: [PATCH v8 2/6] powerpc: pSeries/Kconfig: Add qspinlock build config Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 10:19:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1480951166-44830-1-git-send-email-xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <1480951166-44830-1-git-send-email-xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Message-Id: <1480951166-44830-3-git-send-email-xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , pSeries/powerNV will use qspinlock from now on. Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui --- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig index bec90fb..8a87d06 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig @@ -23,6 +23,14 @@ config PPC_PSERIES select PPC_DOORBELL default y +config ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS + default y + bool "Enable qspinlock" + help + Enabling this option will let kernel use qspinlock which is a kind of + fairlock. It has shown a good performance improvement on x86 and also ppc + especially in high contention cases. + config PPC_SPLPAR depends on PPC_PSERIES bool "Support for shared-processor logical partitions" -- 2.4.11