mm, thp: replace smp_mb after atomic_add by smp_mb__after_atomic
In some architectures like x86, atomic_add() is a full memory barrier. In that case, an additional smp_mb() is just a waste of time. This patch replaces that smp_mb() by smp_mb__after_atomic() which will avoid the redundant memory barrier in some architectures. With a 3.16-rc1 based kernel, this patch reduced the execution time of breaking 1000 transparent huge pages from 38,245us to 30,964us. A reduction of 19% which is quite sizeable. It also reduces the %cpu time of the __split_huge_page_refcount function in the perf profile from 2.18% to 1.15%. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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