From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [patch 5/13] speed up pte_chain locking on uniprocessors
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 00:32:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D439E20.5AEB8FBE@zip.com.au> (raw)
ifdef out some operations in pte_chain_lock() which are not necessary
on uniprocessor.
page-flags.h | 4 ++++
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- 2.5.29/include/linux/page-flags.h~SMP-pte_chain_lock Sat Jul 27 23:39:04 2002
+++ 2.5.29-akpm/include/linux/page-flags.h Sat Jul 27 23:39:04 2002
@@ -240,16 +240,20 @@ static inline void pte_chain_lock(struct
* attempt to acquire the lock bit.
*/
preempt_disable();
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
while (test_and_set_bit(PG_chainlock, &page->flags)) {
while (test_bit(PG_chainlock, &page->flags))
cpu_relax();
}
+#endif
}
static inline void pte_chain_unlock(struct page *page)
{
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
smp_mb__before_clear_bit();
clear_bit(PG_chainlock, &page->flags);
+#endif
preempt_enable();
}
.
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