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20-Sep-2022 |
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> |
powerpc/64s: Make POWER10 and later use pause_short in cpu_relax loops
We want to move away from using SMT priority updates for cpu_relax, and
use a 'wait' instruction which is similar to x86. As well as being a
much better fit for what everybody else uses and tests with, priority
nops are stateful which is nasty (interrupts have to consider they might
be taken at a different priority), and they're expensive to execute,
similar to a mtSPR which can effect other threads in the pipe.
This has shown to give results that are less affected by code alignment
on benchmarks that cause a lot of spin waiting (e.g., rwsem contention
on unixbench filesystem benchmarks) on POWER10.
QEMU TCG only supports this instruction correctly since v7.1, versions
without the fix may cause hangs whne running POWER10 CPUs.
Reviewed-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
[mpe: Fix checkpatch warnings RE the macros]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220920122259.363092-2-npiggin@gmail.com
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25-Aug-2021 |
Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> |
powerpc: Redefine HMT_xxx macros as empty on PPC32
HMT_xxx macros are macros for adjusting thread priority
(hardware multi-threading) are macros inherited from PPC64
via commit 5f7c690728ac ("[PATCH] powerpc: Merged ppc_asm.h")
Those instructions are pointless on PPC32, but some common
fonctions like arch_cpu_idle() use them.
So make them empty on PPC32 to avoid those instructions.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c5a07fadea33d640ad10cecf0ac8faaec1c524e0.1629898474.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
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