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Mikulas Patocka committed b37d1c1898b
parisc: Use per-pagetable spinlock PA-RISC uses a global spinlock to protect pagetable updates in the TLB fault handlers. When multiple cores are taking TLB faults simultaneously, the cache line containing the spinlock becomes a bottleneck. This patch embeds the spinlock in the top level page directory, so that every process has its own lock. It improves performance by 30% when doing parallel compilations. At least on the N class systems, only one PxTLB inter processor broadcast can be active at any one time on the Merced bus. If a Merced bus is found, this patch serializes the TLB flushes with the pa_tlb_flush_lock spinlock. v1: Initial patch by Mikulas v2: Added Merced detection by Helge v3: Revised TLB serialization by Dave & Helge Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net> Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>