[PATCH] Allow i386 to reenable interrupts on lock contention
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca> Following up on Keith's code, I adapted the i386 code to allow enabling interrupts during contested locks depending on previous interrupt enable status. Obviously there will be a text increase (only for non CONFIG_SPINLINE case), although it doesn't seem so bad, there will be an increased exit latency when we attempt a lock acquisition after spinning due to the extra instructions. How much this will affect performance I'm not sure yet as I haven't had time to micro bench. text data bss dec hex filename 2628024 921731 0 3549755 362a3b vmlinux-after 2621369 921731 0 3543100 36103c vmlinux-before 2618313 919222 0 3537535 35fa7f vmlinux-spinline The code has been stress tested on a 16x NUMAQ (courtesy OSDL). Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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