From: Noam Camus <noamca@xxxxxxxxxxxx> This way when we execute "ex" during trying to hold lock we can switch to other HW thread and utilize the core intead of just spinning on a lock. We noticed about 10% improvement of execution time with hackbench test. Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamca at mellanox.com> --- arch/arc/include/asm/spinlock.h | 6 ++++++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/spinlock.h index 233d5ff..0a54ce7 100644 --- a/arch/arc/include/asm/spinlock.h +++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/spinlock.h @@ -252,9 +252,15 @@ static inline void arch_spin_lock(arch_spinlock_t *lock) __asm__ __volatile__( "1: ex %0, [%1] \n" +#ifdef CONFIG_EZNPS_MTM_EXT + " .word %3 \n" +#endif " breq %0, %2, 1b \n" : "+&r" (val) : "r"(&(lock->slock)), "ir"(__ARCH_SPIN_LOCK_LOCKED__) +#ifdef CONFIG_EZNPS_MTM_EXT + , "i"(CTOP_INST_SCHD_RW) +#endif : "memory"); /* -- 1.7.1
