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SubjectRe: x86: clean up smpboot.c's use of udelay+schedule
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On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 13:43 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > >From 9f8dd2b15ff19ad73ee0eb235b4fdde9277185e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
> > Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:38:09 -0800
> > Subject: [PATCH] x86: clean up smpboot.c's use of udelay+schedule
> >
> > smpboot.c does a udelay() followed by a schedule(); to yield
> > the CPU to other threads. This comes from the time when the kernel
> > did not yet have usleep_*() style APIs...
> >
> > ... nowadays, the kernel can do better than this, and this
> > patch replaces this code sequence with a usleep_range(),
> > so that the CPU is actually yielded for some real time.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 3 +--
> > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> > index 66d250c..0b794c6 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> > @@ -781,14 +781,13 @@ do_rest:
> > for (timeout = 0; timeout < 50000; timeout++) {
> > if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, cpu_callin_mask))
> > break; /* It has booted */
> > - udelay(100);
> > /*
> > * Allow other tasks to run while we wait for the
> > * AP to come online. This also gives a chance
> > * for the MTRR work(triggered by the AP coming online)
> > * to be completed in the stop machine context.
> > */
> > - schedule();
> > + usleep_range(100, 200);
>
> I'm wondering whether we could shorten this delay to say 10
> usecs and thus save 0.1 msecs (or more) from a typical SMP
> bootup?

wait_on_completion_timeout() and have the fresh cpu do a wakeup when its
done. That way there's no need for a minimal wait time.

Anyway, all the cpu hotplug code is a friggin trainwreck and needs a
complete rewrite across all archs.


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