cpuidle: powerpc: no memory barrier after break from idle
authorNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Wed, 14 Jun 2017 13:02:41 +0000 (23:02 +1000)
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Wed, 28 Jun 2017 03:08:12 +0000 (13:08 +1000)
A memory barrier is not required after the task wakes up,
only if we clear the polling flag before waking. The case
where we have work to do is the important one, so optimise
for it.

Reviewed-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-powernv.c
drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-pseries.c

index 9d03326..37b0698 100644 (file)
@@ -59,14 +59,21 @@ static int snooze_loop(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
        ppc64_runlatch_off();
        HMT_very_low();
        while (!need_resched()) {
-               if (likely(snooze_timeout_en) && get_tb() > snooze_exit_time)
+               if (likely(snooze_timeout_en) && get_tb() > snooze_exit_time) {
+                       /*
+                        * Task has not woken up but we are exiting the polling
+                        * loop anyway. Require a barrier after polling is
+                        * cleared to order subsequent test of need_resched().
+                        */
+                       clear_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG);
+                       smp_mb();
                        break;
+               }
        }
 
        HMT_medium();
        ppc64_runlatch_on();
        clear_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG);
-       smp_mb();
 
        return index;
 }
index a404f35..e9b3853 100644 (file)
@@ -71,13 +71,20 @@ static int snooze_loop(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
        while (!need_resched()) {
                HMT_low();
                HMT_very_low();
-               if (snooze_timeout_en && get_tb() > snooze_exit_time)
+               if (likely(snooze_timeout_en) && get_tb() > snooze_exit_time) {
+                       /*
+                        * Task has not woken up but we are exiting the polling
+                        * loop anyway. Require a barrier after polling is
+                        * cleared to order subsequent test of need_resched().
+                        */
+                       clear_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG);
+                       smp_mb();
                        break;
+               }
        }
 
        HMT_medium();
        clear_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG);
-       smp_mb();
 
        idle_loop_epilog(in_purr);