x86: atomic64: Improve atomic64_add_return()
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fri, 3 Jul 2009 10:39:07 +0000 (12:39 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fri, 3 Jul 2009 11:26:42 +0000 (13:26 +0200)
commit824975ef190e7dcb77718d1cc2cb53769b16d918
treef5f9f180bef531795e992b34ef417e9822cab3e9
parent69237f94e65d3d7f539f1adb98ef68685c595004
x86: atomic64: Improve atomic64_add_return()

Linus noted (based on Eric Dumazet's numbers) that we would
probably be better off not trying an atomic_read() in
atomic64_add_return() but intead intentionally let the first
cmpxchg8b fail - to get a cache-friendly 'give me ownership
of this cacheline' transaction. That can then be followed
by the real cmpxchg8b which sets the value local to the CPU.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0907021653030.3210@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
arch/x86/lib/atomic64_32.c