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Nicholas Piggin committed d11914b21c4
powerpc/64: Implement clear_bit_unlock_is_negative_byte()
Commit b91e1302ad9b8 ("mm: optimize PageWaiters bit use for
unlock_page()") added a special bitop function to speed up
unlock_page(). Implement this for 64-bit powerpc.
This improves the unlock_page() core code from this:
li 9,1
lwsync
1: ldarx 10,0,3,0
andc 10,10,9
stdcx. 10,0,3
bne- 1b
ori 2,2,0
ld 9,0(3)
andi. 10,9,0x80
beqlr
li 4,0
b wake_up_page_bit
To this:
li 10,1
lwsync
1: ldarx 9,0,3,0
andc 9,9,10
stdcx. 9,0,3
bne- 1b
andi. 10,9,0x80
beqlr
li 4,0
b wake_up_page_bit
In a test of elapsed time for dd writing into 16GB of already-dirty
pagecache on a POWER8 with 4K pages, which has one unlock_page per 4kB
this patch reduced overhead by 1.1%:
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 19 2.578 2.619 2.594 2.595 0.011
+ 19 2.552 2.592 2.564 2.565 0.008
Difference at 95.0% confidence
-0.030 +/- 0.006
-1.142% +/- 0.243%
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
[mpe: Made 64-bit only until I can test it properly on 32-bit]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>