On 02/12/2015 07:32 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
Damn, sorry for noise, forgot to mention...
On 02/12, Raghavendra K T wrote:
+static inline void __ticket_check_and_clear_slowpath(arch_spinlock_t *lock,
+ __ticket_t head)
+{
+ if (head & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG) {
+ arch_spinlock_t old, new;
+
+ old.tickets.head = head;
+ new.tickets.head = head & ~TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG;
+ old.tickets.tail = new.tickets.head + TICKET_LOCK_INC;
+ new.tickets.tail = old.tickets.tail;
+
+ /* try to clear slowpath flag when there are no contenders */
+ cmpxchg(&lock->head_tail, old.head_tail, new.head_tail);
+ }
+}
...
+clear_slowpath:
+ if (TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)
+ __ticket_check_and_clear_slowpath(lock, inc.head);
I think you can remove this "if (TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)" check. If it is
defined as zero, gcc should optimize out the code under "if (head & 0)".
right, the above if ( ) is unnecesary, though we would have same code
at the end, getting rid of that makes code more clean.
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