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author | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2013-08-14 12:51:00 (GMT) |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2013-09-25 12:07:57 (GMT) |
commit | c2daa3bed53a81171cf8c1a36db798e82b91afe8 (patch) | |
tree | a7a7b1676e3101b986276f9ec0eab0ab5183e1ed /lib/cpu_rmap.c | |
parent | a233f1120c37724938f7201fe2353b2577adaaf9 (diff) | |
download | linux-c2daa3bed53a81171cf8c1a36db798e82b91afe8.tar.xz |
sched, x86: Provide a per-cpu preempt_count implementation
Convert x86 to use a per-cpu preemption count. The reason for doing so
is that accessing per-cpu variables is a lot cheaper than accessing
thread_info variables.
We still need to save/restore the actual preemption count due to
PREEMPT_ACTIVE so we place the per-cpu __preempt_count variable in the
same cache-line as the other hot __switch_to() variables such as
current_task.
NOTE: this save/restore is required even for !PREEMPT kernels as
cond_resched() also relies on preempt_count's PREEMPT_ACTIVE to ignore
task_struct::state.
Also rename thread_info::preempt_count to ensure nobody is
'accidentally' still poking at it.
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-gzn5rfsf8trgjoqx8hyayy3q@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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