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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH] arm64: Implement cpu_relax as yield
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 07:43:27PM +0000, Peter Crosthwaite wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 5:24 AM, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:07:37PM +0000, Peter Crosthwaite wrote:
> >> ARM64 has the yield nop hint which has the intended semantics of
> >> cpu_relax. Implement.
> >>
> >> The immediate application is ARM CPU emulators. An emulator can take
> >> advantage of the yield hint to de-prioritise an emulated CPU in favor
> >> of other emulation tasks. QEMU A64 SMP emulation has yield awareness,
> >> and sees a significant boot time performance increase with this change.
> >
> > Could you elaborate on the QEMU SMP boot case please? Usually SMP pens
> > for booting make use of wfe/sev to minimise the spinning overhead.
> >
>
> So I did some follow up experiments. With my patch applied I started
> trapping instances of cpu_relax (now yielding) in gdb. I then
> commented out the cpu_relax's one by one.
>
> This one seems to be the key:
>
> diff --git a/kernel/smp.c b/kernel/smp.c
> index f38a1e6..1c692be 100644
> --- a/kernel/smp.c
> +++ b/kernel/smp.c
> @@ -108,7 +108,8 @@ void __init call_function_init(void)
> static void csd_lock_wait(struct call_single_data *csd)
> {
> while (csd->flags & CSD_FLAG_LOCK)
> - cpu_relax();
> + ;
> + //cpu_relax();
> }
>
> Hack above causes boot time delay even with my patch applied, so this
> is causing my issue it seems.

Ok; I was wondering whether this was going to be part of the bootloader, but
as it's not and this feature is useful to you, then feel free to add my:

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

to your original patch.

Thanks,

Will

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