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2013-02-01MIPS: Whitespace cleanup.Ralf Baechle
Having received another series of whitespace patches I decided to do this once and for all rather than dealing with this kind of patches trickling in forever. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2012-03-28Disintegrate asm/system.h for MIPSDavid Howells
Disintegrate asm/system.h for MIPS. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
2010-02-27MIPS: Optimize spinlocks.David Daney
The current locking mechanism uses a ll/sc sequence to release a spinlock. This is slower than a wmb() followed by a store to unlock. The branching forward to .subsection 2 on sc failure slows down the contended case. So we get rid of that part too. Since we are now working on naturally aligned u16 values, we can get rid of a masking operation as the LHU already does the right thing. The ANDI are reversed for better scheduling on multi-issue CPUs On a 12 CPU 750MHz Octeon cn5750 this patch improves ipv4 UDP packet forwarding rates from 3.58*10^6 PPS to 3.99*10^6 PPS, or about 11%. Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/937/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-02-27MIPS: Octeon: Use optimized memory barrier primitives.David Daney
In order to achieve correct synchronization semantics, the Octeon port had defined CONFIG_WEAK_REORDERING_BEYOND_LLSC. This resulted in code that looks like: sync ll ... . . . sc ... . . sync The second SYNC was redundant, but harmless. Octeon has a SYNCW instruction that acts as a write-memory-barrier (due to an erratum in some parts two SYNCW are used). It is much faster than SYNC because it imposes ordering on the writes, but doesn't otherwise stall the execution pipeline. On Octeon, SYNC stalls execution until all preceeding writes are committed to the coherent memory system. Using: syncw;syncw ll . . . sc . . Has identical semantics to the first sequence, but is much faster. The SYNCW orders the writes, and the SC will not complete successfully until the write is committed to the coherent memory system. So at the end all preceeding writes have been committed. Since Octeon does not do speculative reads, this functions as a full barrier. The patch removes CONFIG_WEAK_REORDERING_BEYOND_LLSC, and substitutes SYNCW for SYNC in write-memory-barriers. Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/850/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-02-27MIPS: New macro smp_mb__before_llsc.David Daney
Replace some instances of smp_llsc_mb() with a new macro smp_mb__before_llsc(). It is used before ll/sc sequences that are documented as needing write barrier semantics. The default implementation of smp_mb__before_llsc() is just smp_llsc_mb(), so there are no changes in semantics. Also simplify definition of smp_mb(), smp_rmb(), and smp_wmb() to be just barrier() in the non-SMP case. Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/851/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-02-27MIPS: Remove unused macros from barrier.hDavid Daney
The smp_llsc_rmb() and smp_llsc_wmb() macros are not used in the tree, remove them. Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/848/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-11MIPS: Move headfiles to new location below arch/mips/includeRalf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>