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| author | Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> | 2006-03-23 12:01:02 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-03-23 16:38:17 +0100 |
| commit | 0b2fcfdb8b4e7e379192f24ea2203163ddf5df1d (patch) | |
| tree | 1f3995e41ab12ff76e737389e0b59a40c0c73668 /include/asm-i386 | |
| parent | [PATCH] fs/*/file.c: drop insane header dependencies (diff) | |
| download | linux-0b2fcfdb8b4e7e379192f24ea2203163ddf5df1d.tar.xz linux-0b2fcfdb8b4e7e379192f24ea2203163ddf5df1d.zip | |
[PATCH] atomic: add_unless cmpxchg optimise
Without branch hints, the very unlikely chance of the loop repeating due to
cmpxchg failure is unrolled with gcc-4 that I have tested.
Improve this for architectures with a native cas/cmpxchg. llsc archs
should try to implement this natively.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-i386')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-i386/atomic.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-i386/atomic.h b/include/asm-i386/atomic.h index 78b0032d1f29..22d80ece95cb 100644 --- a/include/asm-i386/atomic.h +++ b/include/asm-i386/atomic.h @@ -225,8 +225,14 @@ static __inline__ int atomic_sub_return(int i, atomic_t *v) ({ \ int c, old; \ c = atomic_read(v); \ - while (c != (u) && (old = atomic_cmpxchg((v), c, c + (a))) != c) \ + for (;;) { \ + if (unlikely(c == (u))) \ + break; \ + old = atomic_cmpxchg((v), c, c + (a)); \ + if (likely(old == c)) \ + break; \ c = old; \ + } \ c != (u); \ }) #define atomic_inc_not_zero(v) atomic_add_unless((v), 1, 0) |