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Matt Turner authored
On Alpha we have spinlocks that are 32b in size and an efficient cmpxchg64 implementation, so we qualify to make use of cmpxchg backed lockrefs. Select the ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF Kconfig symbol and provide a trivial implementation of arch_spin_value_unlocked to satisfy the lockref code. Using Linus' simple testcase from http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/77466 on a dual CPU ES47 system I see around an 8% gain: N Min Max Median Avg Stddev x 30 6194580 6295654 6272504 6272514 17694.232 + 30 6731164 6786334 6767982d 6764274 13738.863 Difference at 95.0% confidence 491760 +/- 8188.17 7.83992% +/- 0.130541% (Student's t, pooled s = 15840.5) Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
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