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    spin loop primitives for busy waiting · fd851a3c
    Nicholas Piggin 提交于
    Current busy-wait loops are implemented by repeatedly calling cpu_relax()
    to give an arch option for a low-latency option to improve power and/or
    SMT resource contention.
    
    This poses some difficulties for powerpc, which has SMT priority setting
    instructions (priorities determine how ifetch cycles are apportioned).
    powerpc's cpu_relax() is implemented by setting a low priority then
    setting normal priority. This has several problems:
    
     - Changing thread priority can have some execution cost and potential
       impact to other threads in the core. It's inefficient to execute them
       every time around a busy-wait loop.
    
     - Depending on implementation details, a `low ; medium` sequence may
       not have much if any affect. Some software with similar pattern
       actually inserts a lot of nops between, in order to cause a few fetch
       cycles with the low priority.
    
     - The busy-wait loop runs with regular priority. This might only be a few
       fetch cycles, but if there are several threads running such loops, they
       could cause a noticable impact on a non-idle thread.
    
    Implement spin_begin, spin_end primitives that can be used around busy
    wait loops, which default to no-ops. And spin_cpu_relax which defaults to
    cpu_relax.
    
    This will allow architectures to hook the entry and exit of busy-wait
    loops, and will allow powerpc to set low SMT priority at entry, and
    normal priority at exit.
    Suggested-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: NNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
    fd851a3c
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