locking/qspinlock: Avoid redundant read of next pointer
authorWaiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com>
Tue, 10 Nov 2015 00:09:23 +0000 (19:09 -0500)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Mon, 23 Nov 2015 09:02:00 +0000 (10:02 +0100)
commitaa68744f80bfb6f26fbe7f10e42876066f7dac1b
tree1346f724cd714045744db3c49c6b859b10c3b1a3
parent81b5598665a24083dd889fbd8cb08b0d8de4b8ad
locking/qspinlock: Avoid redundant read of next pointer

With optimistic prefetch of the next node cacheline, the next pointer
may have been properly inititalized. As a result, the reading
of node->next in the contended path may be redundant. This patch
eliminates the redundant read if the next pointer value is not NULL.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hpe.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hpe.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447114167-47185-4-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/locking/qspinlock.c