1. 23 10月, 2008 2 次提交
  2. 23 7月, 2008 1 次提交
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      x86: consolidate header guards · 77ef50a5
      Vegard Nossum 提交于
      This patch is the result of an automatic script that consolidates the
      format of all the headers in include/asm-x86/.
      
      The format:
      
      1. No leading underscore. Names with leading underscores are reserved.
      2. Pathname components are separated by two underscores. So we can
         distinguish between mm_types.h and mm/types.h.
      3. Everything except letters and numbers are turned into single
         underscores.
      Signed-off-by: NVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
      77ef50a5
  3. 16 7月, 2008 1 次提交
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      xen: implement Xen-specific spinlocks · 2d9e1e2f
      Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
      The standard ticket spinlocks are very expensive in a virtual
      environment, because their performance depends on Xen's scheduler
      giving vcpus time in the order that they're supposed to take the
      spinlock.
      
      This implements a Xen-specific spinlock, which should be much more
      efficient.
      
      The fast-path is essentially the old Linux-x86 locks, using a single
      lock byte.  The locker decrements the byte; if the result is 0, then
      they have the lock.  If the lock is negative, then locker must spin
      until the lock is positive again.
      
      When there's contention, the locker spin for 2^16[*] iterations waiting
      to get the lock.  If it fails to get the lock in that time, it adds
      itself to the contention count in the lock and blocks on a per-cpu
      event channel.
      
      When unlocking the spinlock, the locker looks to see if there's anyone
      blocked waiting for the lock by checking for a non-zero waiter count.
      If there's a waiter, it traverses the per-cpu "lock_spinners"
      variable, which contains which lock each CPU is waiting on.  It picks
      one CPU waiting on the lock and sends it an event to wake it up.
      
      This allows efficient fast-path spinlock operation, while allowing
      spinning vcpus to give up their processor time while waiting for a
      contended lock.
      
      [*] 2^16 iterations is threshold at which 98% locks have been taken
      according to Thomas Friebel's Xen Summit talk "Preventing Guests from
      Spinning Around".  Therefore, we'd expect the lock and unlock slow
      paths will only be entered 2% of the time.
      Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
      Cc: Virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Xen devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
      Cc: Thomas Friebel <thomas.friebel@amd.com>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      2d9e1e2f
  4. 26 6月, 2008 1 次提交
  5. 25 4月, 2008 1 次提交