linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch
Andi Kleen ca74a6f84e x86: optimize lock prefix switching to run less frequently
On VMs implemented using JITs that cache translated code changing the lock
prefixes is a quite costly operation that forces the JIT to throw away and
retranslate a lot of code.

Previously a SMP kernel would rewrite the locks once for each CPU which
is quite unnecessary. This patch changes the code to never switch at boot in
 the normal case (SMP kernel booting with >1 CPU) or only once for SMP kernel
on UP.

This makes a significant difference in boot up performance on AMD SimNow!
Also I expect it to be a little faster on native systems too because a smp
switch does a lot of text_poke()s which each synchronize the pipeline.

v1->v2: Rename max_cpus
v1->v2: Fix off by one in UP check (Thomas Gleixner)

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:33:17 +01:00
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alpha remove __attribute_used__ 2008-01-28 23:21:18 +01:00
arm spinlock: lockbreak cleanup 2008-01-30 13:31:20 +01:00
avr32 all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
blackfin all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
cris all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
frv Remove references to "make dep" 2008-01-28 23:22:13 +01:00
h8300 all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
ia64 percpu: make the asm-generic/percpu.h more "generic" 2008-01-30 13:32:52 +01:00
m32r spinlock: lockbreak cleanup 2008-01-30 13:31:20 +01:00
m68k all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
m68knommu all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
mips spinlock: lockbreak cleanup 2008-01-30 13:31:20 +01:00
parisc spinlock: lockbreak cleanup 2008-01-30 13:31:20 +01:00
powerpc percpu: use a kconfig variable to signal arch specific percpu setup 2008-01-30 13:32:51 +01:00
ppc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.25 2008-01-29 22:54:01 +11:00
s390 all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
sh all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
sparc all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
sparc64 percpu: use a kconfig variable to signal arch specific percpu setup 2008-01-30 13:32:51 +01:00
um UML: remove remaining FASTCALL uses 2008-01-30 13:31:14 +01:00
v850 all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h 2008-01-28 23:21:17 +01:00
x86 x86: optimize lock prefix switching to run less frequently 2008-01-30 13:33:17 +01:00
xtensa Remove references to "make dep" 2008-01-28 23:22:13 +01:00
.gitignore arch: Ignore arch/i386 and arch/x86_64 2008-01-19 21:29:39 -08:00